Do we need student politics?
Do we actually need student politics right now? Or is it really very impossible to keep the big public universities out of politics? Or is it very necessary to turn the young, innocent students into mere puppets of political games? There was a time when students had significant impact on our political history, for example during 1952, the language movement, in 1971, the liberation war and during Ershad regime. But now the situation has changed. In these days students involved in politics are not doing anything constructive, moreover they are instrumental in deterioration of the peaceful environment of campus. With or without any issue, strikes are called off and on.
Student politics is one of the reasons of educational session jam. It would have been great if something could have been done to save those important educational years! The general students would have remained grateful.
Actually we don't want to solve the problems and that is another big problem. Either we are scared to do it, or we deliberately want to live with those problems.
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