Editorial
Never-ending BCL infighting
How far is too far for the government?
Like in the days of the Wild West when guns and knives were used freely by various feuding groups, so-called students belonging to Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have been chasing one another openly on various campuses with lethal weapons. In yet another such demonstration of lawlessness on a campus, members of one faction of BCL engaged in intermittent clashes with members of another faction on Rajshahi University with handguns and machetes. The clash, that left many students injured and two bullet-hit, has a familiar ring to it -- establishing supremacy of BCL local student leaders on Rajshahi University campus.
As a routine duty, the university proctorial body along with members of the law enforcing agency rushed to the scene to bring the situation under control and arranged to send the injured to the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital after giving first aid at the university medical centre. We are quite alarmed to learn that some of the students are still in a critical condition.
It is utterly shameful and thus deplorable that the feuding BCL students have no noble cause to uphold. It is rather for their personal and group gains through manipulating admission process, allotment of hostel rooms and construction and procurement tenders that they vie with each other. They do so by exerting force on the administration staff in the name of the ruling party -- Awami League. What could be more demeaning for a student body than this as well as for the ruling party?
The story of clashes started in Jahangirnagar University and then traveled all the way to Khulna and then on to Rajshahi. So, the pertinent questions are: When would the barbaric behaviour end? When would the ruling party wake up to assess the extent of damage already done to its image and weed out the hooligans?
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