Highlights
Nationwide Student Team spirit Week, initiated by the Anti-Discrimination Student Motion, has ended with Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the coed wing of BNP, and Islami Chhatra Shibir, the coed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, at odds, while modern student groups saved their distance from the joint actions.
From 26 November to 2 December, 19 student organisations all the diagram in which by diagram of the country participated in the coed unity week, aiming to acquire to the bottom of inter-institutional conflicts among other goals.
The Anti-Discrimination Student Motion will meet all student organisations again the next day to discuss the formation of a “Nationwide Student Council”, in step with the platform’s leaders.
Umama Fatima, spokesperson for the Anti-Discrimination Student Motion, suggested The Industry Common, “We can meet all student organisations again the next day [today]. For now, Nationwide Student Team spirit Week is over, and discussions will focal point on unique programmes. We purpose to position aside organisational divisions and work together – unity is important at the present.”
An emergency assembly of 19 student organisations was as soon as held on 25 November on the Anti-Discrimination Student Motion’s office in Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in the capital. The assembly resulted in a resolution to proceed Nationwide Student Team spirit Week to contend with inter-institutional conflicts.
A 0-tolerance stance towards the Awami League and a commitment to working neighborhood campaigns to present protection to non secular minority groups had been also agreed upon.
Fatima added that while student unity week has concluded, the creep’s procedure on the two other matters – keeping minorities and confronting conspiracies – will dwell unchanged.
At Chittagong University, 10 political occasions held meetings for the coed unity week with out Chhatra Dal and modern student organisations. Chhatra Union leaders mentioned that, in step with central instructions, they’d now not participate in any match piquant Shibir.
At Jahangirnagar University, a liaison committee of 10 organisations was as soon as formed for the week. Whereas Chhatra Dal joined a day later, Chhatra Union, Chhatra Entrance, and other modern student organisations maintained their distance.
Nasir Uddin Nasir, total secretary of central Chhatra Dal, mentioned, “Now we delight in got continued our contain programme while expressing unity. Other organisations are accomplishing their respective actions. We’re obsessed on taking part with others on their programmes.”
He added, “We withhold friendly family members with all energetic student organisations. The actions of alternative groups attain now not delight in an impact on Chhatra Dal’s work. There are no elements for total college students. Whereas we delight in got ideological variations with other organisations, these attain now not hinder our cordial family members.”
Islami Chhatra Shibir’s publicity secretary Sadeque Abdullah suggested The Industry Common, “We held rallies and processions in all divisional cities for the Nationwide Student Team spirit Week. We met leaders from 34 organisations, including the Anti-Discrimination Student Motion and predominant student groups in the country. Now we delight in got worked together to advertise a real campus.”
Addressing the absence of Chhatra Dal and Chhatra Union at meetings, Abdullah mentioned, “Each person need to engage in politics in step with the mandate of the total college students. If we’ll now not withhold the united entrance that existed prior to 5 August, the spirit of the mass uprising will now not suffer. We invited them, but they did now not attend. Then again, we dwell fervent with their leaders.”
Bin Yamin Mollah, president of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, mentioned, “In the final assembly, we proposed working together, but some organisations offered a form of views on their programmes, which is why the unity week was as soon as now not entirely successful. Each person had their contain programmes. We can delight in one other assembly the next day [today], the attach we’ll expose our opinion on the Nationwide Student Council. If that happens, we hope there’ll almost definitely be no division among the many coed organisations.”
Relating to the ongoing warfare between Chhatra Dal and Shibir, he added, “Cohesion was as soon as needed for the mass uprising, and it is miles equally important for state-constructing. If the division between these two organisations continues, total college students will reject them.”
Bahauuddin Shuvo, total secretary of Chhatra Union (a faction), suggested TBS, “Now we delight in got now not but got an invite for any assembly. Despite the indisputable truth that we attain, we’ll now not attend, as we’ll now not sit down with communal organisations like Shibir.”
He added, “With the mass uprising over, we deem the Anti-Discrimination platform is now not needed. We can proceed our actions with socialist student fronts and other modern organisations.”
