BAU students agitate demanding action

Classes and examinations of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh remained suspended for the second consecutive day yesterday as the students continued agitation demanding action against armed outsiders who intruded into the campus on Monday.
In the evening that day, outsider motorbike riders led by Mymensingh district unit president of Chhatra League Md Jasim Uddin staged showdown on the campus, firing several rounds of bullets and blasting cocktails in front of Ashraful Haque Hall, Shaheed Shamsul Haque Hall and Shaheed Nazmul Ahsan Hall of BAU.
Creating a panicky situation on the campus for quite sometime, they left the campus.
Although witnesses on the campus narrated the incidents of firing and cocktail blasts on Monday evening, Jasim Uddin denied occurrence of any such incident on BAU campus.
Immediate after the incident, general students brought out a protest procession and issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the university authorities demanding arrest and exemplary punishment of the miscreants.
Demanding adequate security arrangements on the campus, students staged demonstration and formed a human chain yesterday.
As the 24-hour deadline was over on Tuesday night without any positive outcome, the students brought out a procession yesterday afternoon and staged demonstration in front of the Teachers-Students Centre (TSC) on the campus.
Speakers at the programme urged the university authorities to take immediate steps against the miscreants and warned of tougher movement otherwise.
The students' representatives later sat in a discussion with the university administration.
In this regard, BAU Proctor Prof Dr Harun-ur-Rashid said, “We have informed the district administration of the matter to take necessary steps against the outsider miscreants. We hope that the students will attend their class by Thursday.”
Additional police forces have been deployed on the campus to avert further untoward incident.