2 Barisal colleges hostage to JCD activists!

The activists collect toll from students residing in college hostels on the campuses and private boarding houses nearby. Anybody refusing is harassed or victimised, many of them told this correspondent seeking anonymity.

Recently one student of Alamgir Chhatrabas (Student Hostel) of Sayed Hatem Ali College was beaten by the JCD when he refused to pay tolls to JCD college unit president.

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Many of the resident students at Alamgir Chhatrabas ( hostel) on Sayed Hatem Ali College campus alleged that besides extortion, JCD activists and outsider musclemen forcibly use their rooms for anti-social activities. They are threatened for refusal, they alleged.

The hostel superintendent is helpless in the situation as he can not do anything.

Students who came from villages or outside the city became easy targets.

Students residing at different private boarding houses at Baddaypara, Hospital Road, Natun Bazaar, Kaunia and Shadhur Bata Tala and other areas in the city also have to pay toll to the activists, allegedly protected by BNP high- ups.

The students and teachers in charge of hostels lodged verbal complaints to local police, but to no effect, they alleged.

When contacted, B M College Principal Prof Nurul Haque declined to any comment about the matter. He said he did not get any such complaint.

Some teachers of the two colleges seeking anonymity said the illegal practice is continuing on the campuses due to partisan role of a section of pro-BNP teachers.

Recently, some honest and reputed teachers of BM College resign their posts of hostel superintendents due to alleged misbehaviour of JCD leaders. But the college authorities did not take any action against the wrongdoers, it was gathered.

The JCD cadres compelled the hostel superintendents to allot seats as per their lists and allow them to use some rooms.