Arrest Faruk's killers, demands rally at RU
The newly formed Secular Democratic Students' Action Council in Rajshahi University (RU) yesterday demanded the government bring the killers of Faruk Hossain to justice.
Addressing a protest rally in front of the central library on RU campus, the leaders and activists of the council called upon the government to root out fundamentalism from the country.
Earlier, the council led by its convener Awal Kabir Joy, also the RU unit president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), brought out a procession on the campus in protest against the killing of Faruk and attack of Shibir cadres on February 9.
On Thursday, Chhatra League, Jasad Chhatra League, Chhatra Moitree and Chhatra Union of the university formed the secular council with a view to resist Shibir on the campus.
Meanwhile, 301 RU teachers under the banner of Progressive Teachers' Society yesterday called upon the government and the university authorities to ban the politics of Jamaat-e-Islami and its associated student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir.
In a statement, the RU teachers said Jamaat and Shibir cadres are trying to destabilise the country as the government is going to try the war criminals.
The progressive teachers also demanded suspension of pro-Jamaat teachers and employees from the university who were recruited by the previous BNP-Jamaat government.
The signatories include Prof Antazul M Haque, Prof Mizan Uddin, Prof Chitta Ranjan Saha Mishra, Prof Maloy Kumar Bhowmik, Prof Shamsuddin Elias, Prof Dulal Chandra Biswas, Prof Ananda Kumar Saha, Mustak Ahmed and Hasibul Alam Prodhan.
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