A vested group allegedly bearing links with anti-liberation force Jamaat-e- Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir is out to destroy the congenial educational environment of Dhaka University, only to make personal gain by riding on the unstable situation. Following the latest incident, panic and unrest gripped the university campus as the clash between Muktujhuddo Mancha and Bangladesh General Students Right Protection Council- publicly known as Quota reformists group- led by DUCSU VP Nurul Haque Nur and his associates erupted.
On December 22, DUCSU VP Nurul Haque Nur was staying with some of his ‘outsider’ fellows at his room in DUCSU building. At that time, a faction of Muktijuddho Mancha attacked on DUCSU VP and his associates alleging that he was staying with armed outsiders to create panic on the university campus.
Following the attack, 28 were injured, including DUCSU VP Nurul Haque Nur and other leaders, some Muktijuddho Mancha’ leaders also sustained injuries in the melee. They were later taken to the hospitals for treatment. Some activists of Chhatra League were also involved with the attack which later can be identified by video footage.
After the incident, main organization of Muktijuddho Mancha led by its founder convener AKM Jamal Uddin, a teacher of University of Dhaka, protested the attack and said Muktijuddho Mancha was not involved in the incident. Attackers were expelled from the organization before, he said.
It is suspected that a vested section wants to destabilize the congenial atmosphere of the university anyhow to gain their interest and malign the image of the authority, the government and mainstream student body Bangladesh Chhatra League. After the attack, protesting students blame only Chhatra League for the attack and chanted slogans demanding arrest of BCL DU unit president and secretary and ban on Chhatra League politics on the campus. Left leaning organizations and other some political organizations joined the protesters to support the demand for movement against Chhatra League and to malign the government image.
Moreover, before the latest incident, reports published in the newspapers said militants and communal groups, including Chhatra Shibir, Hizbut Tahrir, Isha Chhatra Andolon and others extremist forces were trying to make their visible stay on the campus using the opportunity of insouciance of the University authorities and lack of healthy and coexistence of mainstream progressive political organizations and exploiting the general students’ emotion.
Chhatra Shibir, Hizbut Tahrir and extremist communal groups’ activists are infiltrating into other student organizations as well as taking part in different movements being created in the name of general students, only to spread and enforce their own subversive ideals. Shibir and other communal groups’ members are instigating factional feuds inside their respective parties after infiltrating themselves into their rank and file.
It is doubted that, activists of Shibir and other communal groups infiltrated into other students’ organizations and working behind to carry out clashes on the university campus anyhow. This correspondent called DU proctor AKM Golam Rabbani for his comment in this regard, but he wasn’t available over phone.