VC gives written assurance to meet BCL, PSA demands

The campus will crawl back to life as Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) withdrew their siege following written assurance by Vice-chancellor Prof AJM Nuruddin Chowdhury that their demands would be fulfilled.

The BCL laid a siege to the campus on April 3 to press its five-point demand which includes investigation into the attack on Sham-sunnahar Hall students on March 29 and 30 by activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and security of BCL men on the campus.

The VC at a meeting with PSA leaders on Saturday assured its leaders that immediate steps would be taken to arrest JCD activists who attacked a PSA procession on March 31.

PSA, a forum of three left-leaning student organisations, laid a siege to the campus on April 3.

In a related development, president of CU Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan at a meeting of CU Syndicate regretted the April 2 attack on Lecturer Akhter Hossain Piaru by some ICS activists at university central playground. Protesting the attack, the CU Teachers Association observed two-day work abstention on Monday and Tuesday.