Disarm student politics

Ferdous Hossain, Dept. of History, University of Chittagong

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Good leadership is badly needed for Bangladesh as no nation can not go forward without it. Today's students will lead the nation in the future. If we look at the history of the country, we will see that there have been a number of examples of good leadership and student politics --- our Language Movement in 1952, students' movement in 1962, mass uprising in 1969, etc. Students played important roles at those times. But at present, students politics have become polluted by power, money, arms and the use of students by political parties for their selfish interests. The students in the political parties, especially the ruling party, torture and even kill other students on the campus. If nothing is done now to stop this evil acts, it is our nation that will suffer in the long run. The ruling and the opposition parties should think about it and do something right now.