Shahjalal Varsity Tense
We are worried at the way the situation is deteriorating at the Sylhet Shahjalal University of Science and Technology due to the bellicose stance of the student fronts of the ruling party and the opposition BNP. Although both BCL and JCD are now in a position to be blamed squarely for any possible eruption that might flare up it is the former which set the ball rolling in this case. The activists of the student front of ruling Awami League made a mockery of the administration by refusing to vacate the hall after the authorities closed the university in view of escalating tension following the expulsion of 17 students by the syndicate on various grounds. Eleven of the expelled students belong to BCL. Protesting expulsion decision, the BCL activists clamped a self-proclaimed strike forcing the authorities to close the university sine die. Since then the BCL activists and their JCD counterparts have been on collision course.
We are shocked to notice that a month is about to pass since the trouble began and yet the ruling party has not made any discernible move to chasten the members of its student front who have put the university in a limbo.
In unison with President Shahabuddin Ahmed we have observed it many times before that unless political parties completely dissociate themselves with their student fronts, this sickening saga of BCL-JCD anarchy will never end. We demand of the party in power to take steps immediately against the BCL trouble mongers and help the university authorities restore normalcy without any further delay.
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