He said no progress in education sector has been achieved during the coalition rule, rather they have established a reign of terror in educational institutions.

Simultaneously, the alliance government has destroyed the education sector through immense corruption and politicisation, he added.

Speaking at a press conference at the party's central office at Bangabandhu Avenue, Obaid said Tarique gave some false information at a programme organised by the ruling party lawmaker Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu at the city's Lalbagh area.

He said Tarique's claim that the AL occupied all educational institutions during its regime, is not true, rather a congenial atmosphere had prevailed in all institutions.

Terming Pintu a godfather of criminals, Obaid said Pintu, the then president of BNP's student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), occupied all the dormitories of Dhaka University immediately after the coalition government came to power.

On Tarique's claim that copying has been stopped during the present regime, the AL leader said, "When questions are leaked out before examinations, then copying is not needed. Questions of all BCS (Bangladesh Civil Service) examinations were leaked out and political affiliation is the main criteria for getting jobs under the coalition rule."

The JCD cadres attacked the female students of Eden College under the leadership of Pintu, he said, adding that they also attacked the female students at the Institute of Fine Arts last year.

Besides, a brilliant female student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) was killed by the JCD cadre, he added.

Obaid said police entered a DU female dormitory at midnight and assaulted a number of students. The JCD cadres attacked the students who were demonstrating on the campus to protest the police atrocities the next day.

He also alleged that a number of teachers were killed and others received death threats during the period.