The New Nation - Internet Edition

Md. Jamal Uddin

The agencies of the government have become active on the Dhaka University campus while the students` organisations are trying to build a movement against the Caretaker Government ahead of the upcoming election.

Despite having many cases against some formidable leaders of the organisations, who absconded last year after coming of the present government apprehending arrest, are now being encouraged to take up different programmes on the campus even in emergency.

They are trying to make an alliance namely 'Sarbodolio Chhatra Oyika' to mount a movement against the present government within next month.

The leaders of the organisations sat several times to bring the organisations under a platform but they could not reach unanimity owing to opposition of a handful of student leaders belonging to the BCL, sources said.

Later, they, especially, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP, and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of Awami League, took decision to separately mobilise their agitation on different issues.

Being informed of the initiative of the organisations, the agencies increased their activities on the campus following the government order to tackle any untoward situation. As strategy, the agencies would activate the cases of the student leaders` and shall set up check posts around the campus so that outsiders could not enter or stay on the campus, said a member of an agency seeking anonymity.

Meanwhile, the agency members are collecting information about those leaders against whom cases are pending.

The JCD senior leaders have temporarily became inactive after the killing of Mashiul Alam Sentu, a leader of the organisation, in crossfire.

But both organisations are holding different types of programmes demanding release of their leaders and holding of national election before all other elections.

Mahmud Hasan Ripon, central president of the BCL, said they would continue their agitation in the greater interest of the students and for the protection of democracy in the country.

Saiful Islam Firoz, general secretary of the JCD DU unit, said the government was trying to silence the movement of the student organisations lodging different false cases against the leaders.

Citing example, he said, two leaders of JCD and BCL are languishing in jail for over a year without any specific charges against them.