The Rajshahi University left organisations on Monday condemned a Bangladesh Chhatra League attack on a rally at Bogra Azizul Haque College on Sunday, protesting at recently signed product sharing contact between the government and ConocoPhillips to explore mineral resources in deep sea of Bangladesh.
The RU unit of the Progressive Students Alliance, a union of left leaning political organisations for students, brought out a protest procession on the campus at about 11:00am.
More than a hundred activists shouted slogans against the ruling party's associated body for the students.
Later, the protesters held a rally where they said the ruling party and its associate bodies intended to stop all democratic movements in the country.
They said Awami League wanted that there would be only one students' organisation in the country and it must be Chhatra League.
They also complained that the authorities concerned always tried to vandalise the peaceful demonstrations of the left students' organisations for establishing the democratic rights of the people.
The speakers said the BCL activists attacked the rally organised by Samajtantrik Chhatra Front at Bogra Azizul Haque College and injured at least 15 activists of the organisation.
Samajtantrik Chhatra Front convener Sohrab Hossain, Bangladesh Students' Alliance president Rafi Ahmed Chanchal and secretary Shipon Ahmed, Bangladesh Students' Federation president Sham Sagar Manki and Biplabi Chhatra Moitree president Iqbal Ahmed addressed at the rally, among others.
Source : New Age
