No classes held at Sylhet medical for second day

15 March 2009, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet

Students of MAG Osmani Medical College in Sylhet stage a sit-in in front of the principal's room yesterday during their strike called in protest against outsiders' attack on students on Friday.Photo: STAR

Classes at Sylhet Osmani Medical College remained suspended for the second day yesterday as Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) enforced strike protesting attack on some students of the college by outsiders on Friday. The BCL men put the administrative building and classrooms under lock and key and laid a siege to the office of the principal for about an hour. Later, they submitted a memorandum to the principal demanding punishment to the attackers including local ward councillor Abdur Raquib Bablu and his younger brother Lablu, security of the students on the campus, ban on outsiders' entry into the campus and closure of the canteen in front of the emergency department. On Friday, about 20 youths, led by Lablu, went to the college playground, stopped the ongoing cricket tournament and beat up some students. Protesting the incident, the students of the college boycotted classes on Saturday and took out a procession on the campus demanding arrest of the attackers including CCC ward councillor Bablu and his younger brother Lablu. The students alleged that Bablu and his brother led the attack on their fellows on the playground on Friday. Terming students' allegation against their ward councilor false, Bablu's supporters took out a procession on the road in front of the medical college yesterday. They also blocked the road for about half an hour. Meantime, Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran went to the campus and held separate meetings with the college principal and BCL men. He assured the students of taking necessary steps against the persons responsible for the incident on the college campus and urged them to attend their classes. Later, the mayor sat with the locals and assured them of taking necessary steps to end the dispute between the locals and the students. Police have been deployed on the medical college campus to avert untoward incident.