'Student politics lacks quality'
A top student leader during the 1969 mass upsurge, Tofail Ahmed, yesterday said quality student politics is absent, as elections to the student bodies have not been held for the past few years.
Student leaders of the past used to lead simple life, but student leaders of today enjoy lavish life, he said while addressing a discussion to mark the Mass Upsurge Day.
Former Chhatra League Foundation organised the discussion chaired by its president and former Chhatra League leader Nur-e-Alam Siddiqui.
Tofail, the then DUCSU vice-president, recalled sacrifices of Asad, Matiur, and others who laid their lives in the movement, saying the upsurge sowed the very seed of liberation of the country.
On January 24 in 1969, the then military dictator of Pakistan Ayub Khan was forced to step down through a mass movement.
Tofail said the sacrifices of Asad, Matiur, and others, who died in that mass movement, should be included in the textbooks.
Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote, Jatiya Gonotantrik League, Jatiya Shadhinota Parishad, Bangladesh Nari Mukti Andolan, and Bangabandhu Sangskritik Parishad also observed the day amid different programmes.
Nabakumar Institution and Dr Shahidullah College, where Motiur used to study, placed wreaths at the portrait of the martyr on the occasion.
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