Discontent over New BCL Committee: Hasina needs ouster of these with tainted image

DU Correspondent
12:00 AM, May 16, 2019/
LAST MODIFIED: 04:33 AM, May 16, 2019

File photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Prime Minister and Awami League President swayer Hasina yesterday gave directions for inquisitory the allegations against the “controversial” leaders within the recently fashioned BCL central committee, say party insiders.

She gave the directives to BCL President Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury Shovon and AL Joint General Secretary Jahangir Kabir religious leader at a gathering at the Gono Bhaban from 3:00pm to 4:30pm.

Hasina asked Shovon to drop the “controversial” leaders from the committee if the allegations against them are found true, Gono Bhaban sources told this newspaper.

Nanak and another Joint General Secretary of the party, Abdur Rahman, were entrusted with the responsibility for forming the full-fledged BCL committee of the pro-AL student body.

Chhatra League General Secretary Golam Rabbani at a conference at AL President’s Dhanmondi workplace at regarding 12:15am nowadays aforementioned they'd investigate the allegations.

“We can drop the leaders from the committee if the allegations against them are found true,” he added.

Meanwhile, at somebody's chain on the capital of Bangladesh University field yesterday, the “deprived” BCL leaders criticised AL acting general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif’s remark on Sunday’s incident at Madhur Canteen.

Hanif on Tues termed the scuffle between 2 BCL factions a “trifling” matter.

“With due reference to prime Awami League leaders, i'd wish to raise however so much the Madhur Canteen incident ought to have gone to form them take into account it an enormous incident,” asked Nipo metric weight unit, a deputy cultural affairs secretary of the recently fashioned BCL committee.

“How badly ought to we've got been annoyed to form them assume that the feminine BCL activists we have a tendency tore tortured? can the actual fact come back to lightweight when we die?

“When can we have a tendency to get statements from the Awami League’s prime leadership that feminine BCL leaders were attacked?” she asked whereas speaking at the human chain.

The BCL leaders additionally raised question regarding the neutrality of the probe body fashioned over Monday’s incident, alleging that none of the committee members contacted them nevertheless.

The BCL on Mon proclaimed its 301-member full-fledged central committee, touching off contention and demonstrations by a number of people who couldn't create it to the new committee.

It was fashioned a year when the BCL’s twenty ninth national council on could 11-12 last year.

On July 31, the AL chief appointive Shovon as BCL president and Golam Rabbani as general secretary.