'Cancel' fee hike decision, demand CU students
Rejecting the postponement of fee hike, the students of Chittagong University (CU) yesterday vowed to continue agitation until the fee hike decision was cancelled and their three other demands were met.
The CU authorities in a meeting on Saturday postponed their earlier decision of fee hike in the wake of student agitation. A high-powered committee comprising the deans of all faculties, CU proctor and student affairs adviser was also formed at the meeting to review the decision of fee hike. The committee will submit its report within seven days.
The students under the banner of 'Anti-Fee Hike General Students' yesterday arranged a photo and poster exhibition in front of the CU shaheed minar on their ongoing agitation and police attack on female students on the campus on August 2.
Campus sources said some unidentified students arrived at the shaheed minar at noon and tore up the posters and photos.
A group of 15 students came to the venue, tore up around 50 posters, scuffled with the agitating students and accused them of creating unrest on the campus at the instigation of left student organisations, sources added.
Immediately after the incident, the general students brought out a procession on the campus protesting the attack. They held a protest rally and vowed to continue their agitation to press home the four-point demand.
The demands are cancellation of the authorities' earlier decision of fee hike, withdrawal of expulsion of a student, withdrawal of 'false' cases filed against some agitating students and punishment to the policemen who attacked the agitating students on the campus on August 2.
"We contacted the CU administration including the proctor during the attack, but no step was taken,” the agitating students alleged. Probal Majumder, president of Samajtantrik Chhatra Front (SCF) CU unit, said the authorities are trying to foil the ongoing agitation of the general students with the help of miscreants.
The university authorities are wasting time in the name of review of their earlier decision of fee hike, he alleged.
Contacted, CU Proctor Prof Jashim Uddin said the incident at the shaheed minar might have occurred due to division among the agitating students.
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