4 expelled for protesting admission trade

Four leaders of Eden Girls' College BCL were expelled from the organisation on Saturday as they protested 'admission trade' and 'torture' of fellow activists by president and general secretary of the college unit.
BCL central president Mahmud Hasan Ripon took the unilateral decision to expel the four following clashes between two factions of BCL on the college campus on Friday, sources said.
Ripon violated the constitution of the BCL by expelling the four leaders, they said, adding that but he did not take any organisational action against two top leaders of the college unit who are involved in torturing fellow leaders and 'allocating dormitory seats and managing admissions of first year honours students in exchange for handsome amount of money'.
According to the BCL constitution, only central executive committee can expel members of any unit after investigations. But in this case, Ripon took the decision unliterary.
He even threatened to oust the four from the college dormitory and hand over them to the police if they again protest the misdeeds of the two leaders -- college unit president Selina Shamima Nijhum and general secretary Farzana Yasmin Tania, the sources said.
The two leaders have also given Ripon a handsome share of the admission and seat trade since the AL-led grand alliance government assumed office, the sources added.
Different sources said the two female leaders managed admission of about 900 students in exchange for Tk 30,000 or Tk 50,000 from each student.
The four expelled leaders -- vice president Champa Khatun, organising secretary Sharmin Sultana Sharmi and Tania Sultana Happy and assistant secretary Kaniz Fatema -- revolted against the two top leaders on Friday.
"We have registered our protest since Nijhum had been torturing us over the years," Sharmi said.
Sources said Ripon had a meeting with Nijhum and Tania only few days before the start of admission process.
The college unit of BCL was formed on December 15 in 2006 and its tenure expired two years ago, but no new committee has been formed as yet. Nijhum and Tania got admission in the college under session 1996-97, the expelled leaders said.
When contacted, Ripon dismissed the allegation of taking money from the two leaders as false and baseless.
The four leaders were expelled for their anti-organisational activities, he said.
When asked for comment, Vice Principal of the college Ayesha Begum said, "As far as I know, there were no irregularities in the admission process and everything has been done in accordance with the National University rules."