JCD declares Badruddoza unwanted at DU
Asks MA Mannan's wife to resign from senate
DU Correspondent
The student wing of the key ruling party yesterday declared Dhaka University a no-go area for alternative political stream convenor AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury, saying the former president betrayed the party that lifted him to national prominence. The Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, vowed to resist the entry of the physician-turned-politician into the campus and threatened the wife of a leader of his platform with the same fate if she did not resign for the university's senate. At a rally on the campus, the student front asked Ummey Kulsum, wife of retired army major MA Mannan, member secretary of the stream, to resign from senate in a week or face being 'unwarranted' at the university. JCD President Sahabuddin Laltu pegged Badruddoza's platform as 'a union of betrayers', saying the 'conspirators' were unmasked with the formation of the 'so-called alternative platform'. They were conspiring against the democratic government and the BNP sitting in the high ranks of the party, Laltu alleged, accusing Badruddoza of exploding bombs at his own house with the 'evil motive' of shifting the blame onto the government. The JCD also accused the Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) of playing a partisan role centring the attack on prominent writer Humayun Azad, saying it was overplaying the 'non-issue'. General Secretary of the student front Azizul Bari Helal urged the DUTA to help resume classes in the grater interest of thousands of students. He warned tough agitation if the university authorities sat on their hands without taking adequate measures to begin classes at the highest seat of learning. At view exchange meetings at different halls of the university on Sunday night, the also JCD blamed the DUTA leaders for the deadlock and vowed to resist the association if they tried to 'destroy the academic life as well as careers of students'. Before the rally, the JCD brought out a procession on the campus that ended at the foot of the Aparajeyo Bangla monument. JCD leaders Sultan Salauddin Tuku, Farhad Hossain Azad, Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel, Shafiul Bari Babu, Selimuzzaman Selim, Mostafa Khan Safori, Amirul Islam Khan Alim and Hasasn Mamun attended the rally.
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