Who will take our responsibility?

Teachers and students of Fulbaria Degree College in the district have demanded arrest and punishment of the perpetrators responsible for the death of two persons including a teacher of the institution on November 27.

They made the demand at a mourning rally on the college campus yesterday.

Abul Kalam Azad, 55, assistant professor of botany of the college, and Safor Ali, 65, a passer-by, were killed as police swooped on the procession of the teachers and students who were demanding nationalisation of the college. Over 100 others were also injured in the attack on Sunday noon.

At yesterday's rally, deceased Abul Kalam Azad's elder daughter Samiha Azad Shochi said in a choked voice, "I demand punishment of the perpetrators and also nationalisation of the college, which was dream of my father."

"Who will take the responsibility of our family now? We want to meet with the prime minister to tell about the sufferings of our family following the tragic death of my father," said Samiha, an honours final year student of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Bangladesh Agricultural University.

Former vice-chancellor of Bangabandu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University Prof Dr Abdul Mannan addressed the mourning rally, among others.

The teachers and students of Fulbaria Degree College, established in 1972, have continued their movement for over one and a half months after the college was dropped from the nationalisation list while a 'relatively new and undeveloped' college in the upazila was nationalised.