DU students lock doors demanding Ducsu polls
Students of Dhaka University come out of the Arts Building as classrooms are locked during yesterday's strike called by a group of students under the banner of Dhaka Bishwabiddaloy Shikkharthi Odhikar Mancha. The group is demanding election to Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu).Photo: STAR
Dhaka University students under the banner Dhaka Bishwabiddaloy Shikkharthi Odhikar Mancha (Dhaka University Students' Rights Forum) observed a strike and sealed the entrance of the Arts Building, Institute of Business Administration and Curzon Hall yesterday demanding Ducsu polls. Ducsu (Dhaka University Central Students' Union) and Hall Union polls have been suspended for over 20 years. The university's authorities said academic activities remained halted for one hour till they broke the locks, the keyholes of which contained superglue and thin iron rods. Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique said most of the agitators, numbering 20 to 25, were not students. “It may be a conspiracy to bring instability in public universities. Students have their right to demand something from the authorities but they do not have the right to disturb others through their activities,” he said. Rejecting the allegations of tampering with the locks, one activist of the forum, Nure Alam Durjoy, said all of the activists were students.
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