BCL outrage knows no bound

DRIVING 97 first year students out of a Dhaka University dormitory, the SM Hall, only because they could not prove their allegiance to the ruling party is the most scandalous act that BCL has committed recently. But how could the BCL get away with such an outrage before the eyes of the university and hall authorities?  Where will all these students, most of whom are from different districts outside Dhaka, stay to continue their studies in the university?
What the BCL has done is totally unacceptable and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms. What has the university administration concerned to say about this incident? Unfortunately, more appalling than the BCL's act has been the way the acting DU proctor and acting provost of the dormitory concerned have tried to explain away the villainy perpetrated by the BCL. We are baffled by their kid-glove approach towards mischief-makers of BCL, who have turned these student dormitories into their virtual fiefdoms.   At the same time, it defies comprehension when these supposed guardians of the students try to shrug off their responsibilities by terming these hapless students' stay at the hostel as illegal.
The university authority must stop playing the second fiddle to the BCL in running the affairs of the student dormitories and exercise its due control on them. Otherwise, it won't be too late before the sacred precincts of the university and its student dormitories are lost to the grip of the hooligans.