10 hurt as BCL men ‘attack’ Chhatra Odhikar Parishad activists in DU

At least 10 were injured after Chhatra League men allegedly attacked activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad on Dhaka University campus yesterday morning.

The injured were taken to two hospitals in the capital for treatment, said Sifat Uddin Sifat, former office secretary of DU unit Chhatra Odhikar Parishad.

Witnesses said the BCL men carried out the attack when leaders and activists of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad started a procession towards TSC around 10:45am, marking the student body's fifth founding anniversary.

This newspaper has collected a brief video footage of the incident, where we could identify at least one BCL leader – Asaduzzaman Farid, joint secretary of Jahurul Haque hall unit BCL-- among the attackers.

Among the injured are Chhatra Odhiker Parishad president Bin Yeamin Molla and its general secretary Adib Arif, their DU committee's former president Akhtar Hossain, organising secretary Molla Ramatullah and Ahsanul Mahbub Jubair, Dhaka city unit's leader Yunus, Faisal Raky, Nirob, Jahirul Islam and Sabbir Hosssain. 

Contacted, Tanbir Hasan Shaikat, DU unit general secretary of BCL, claimed that general students were celebrating the victory of Cumilla Victorians in the BPL when Chhatra Odhikar Parishad activists told them sports celebration is forbidden in Islam.

They, at one stage, attacked the general students, leaving at least two injured, he claimed.

"BCL had no programme on campus today [yesterday]," he added.

DU Proctor AKM Golam Rabbani said, "We learnt that two student organisations were involved in a clash. But we did not receive any written complaint from either of them."