Fifteen teachers of Rajshahi University expressed deep concern over the "criminal activities" of Bangladesh Chhatra League at the educational institutions and urged the government to take immediate steps in this regard.
Referring to the recent call of five other noted educationists who have urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to cut all relations with BCL, the RU teachers said the call has been made in time.
In a joint statement issued yesterday the teachers said, expressing words like "concern, apprehension and despair" is not enough to describe the reality of the educational institutions. The anarchic situation, which prevails at the institutions, is also being infiltrated into the state activities like an incurable disease, it added.
They termed this situation destructive to the state and society.
The signatories are Hasan Azizul Haque, Sanat Kumar Saha, Zulfikar Matin, Mokhlesur Rahman, Shah Newaj Ali, Moloy Bhowmik, Abdul Mazid, Mahbubur Rahman, Jalal Uddin, Chhitta Ranjan Misra, SM Abu Bakar, Ananda Kumar Saha, Sujit Sarker, Shamsuddin Illias and Hasibul Alam Prodhan.
Pointing out the PM's remark that all achievements of the nation would not go in vein for BCL, it said the government must take stern actions against the criminal activities of other organisations.
They demanded elections of students' unions immediately to create atmosphere of student politics at the educational institutions.
Talking to The Daily Star in the afternoon, eminent littérateur Hasan Azizul Haque said, "We [signatories] are not against student politics."
Achievements of student politics in the past will never be ignored in the history but the wrongdoings in the name of student politics cannot be accepted, he said.
Referring to the role of student politics in building the nation, he demanded restoration of healthy culture in student politics.
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