Fury rages on against removal of sculpture

Different organisations yesterday staged demonstrations protesting against the removal of the statues of Baul singers (folk singers) at the Zia International Airport intersection.
A group of Dhaka University (DU) students under the banner of Pragatir Paribrajak Dal, a cultural movement of DU students, held a cultural programme in protest near Ducsu cafeteria on the campus.
The students demanded reinstallation of the sculptures.
Meanwhile, students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) yesterday formed a human chain protesting the removal of the statues and the statements of Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini regarding sculptures in Bangladesh.
Around 100 students, mostly members of different cultural and political organisations of Buet, formed the human chain around 1:30pm under the banner of Sammilito Sangskritik Oikya, a platform of different cultural organisations in Buet. It ended around 2:15pm.
The students also brought out a silent procession that paraded different streets inside the university.
Ranak, president of Buet Film Society, Dipesh, president of Murchhana, a cultural club at Buet, Machel, president of Buet Debate Club and Rubel, acting president of Buet unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League, took part in the human chain.
Charan Sangskritik Kendra (CSK), a cultural organisation, during a press conference also demanded reinstallation of the sculptures of the Baul singers.
In a statement, the coordinator of CSK said the removal of the sculptures was a surrender of the government to the fundamentalist forces at the intersection near ZIA.
Bangladesh Mahila Parishad and six anti-fundamentalist organisations--Bratachari Andolan, Nagorik Odhikar Andolan, Anushilan Pathchakra, Jubokarmi Sangha, Pragya, Shahid Rafik Smriti Pathagar--also demanded reinstallation of the statues.