Student Politics in Bangladesh
Problems of Student Politics
Author / Source : by Adil Sakhawat Friday, 24 February 2012 01:21
It is said that education is the backbone of a nation and the students are its future. Student life should be spent in study and interaction with all in order to gain knowledge and groom oneself as an ideal human being. But at present the alarming fact is that student politics is considered as a powerful weapon for the political parties in Bangladesh. As a result, students in public universities become involved in atrocious party politics and indulge in illegal activities like killing, tender and admission businesses and so on in the name of student politics. Nowadays student politics is neither people oriented nor educational; rather it is oriented toward personal interest and political gains. Student movements are not directed towards the betterment of students; rather this is pursued as a tool to strengthen party and individual position in the campus. Now-a-days, innocent students are bearing the brunt of student politics as they are often the victim of untoward incidents, including death. The regular students often sustain injury resulting from inter-party and intra-party student clash. Often these injuries turn fatal and lead to death. Unrest and atrocities sparked by student politics first hit Jahangirnagar University (JU) in the beginning of this year, while a series of such clashes erupted in other public universities like Shahajalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Comilla University, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Jagannath University and Chittagong University. The last political victim till now is Zubair Ahmed, a fourth year English department student in JU, who was brutally murdered on 9th January by some activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of JU, a student wing of the ruling party. In other universities as well, students are killed and blood shed in the name of student
Author / Source : by Adil Sakhawat Friday, 24 February 2012 01:21
It is said that education is the backbone of a nation and the students are its future. Student life should be spent in study and interaction with all in order to gain knowledge and groom oneself as an ideal human being. But at present the alarming fact is that student politics is considered as a powerful weapon for the political parties in Bangladesh. As a result, students in public universities become involved in atrocious party politics and indulge in illegal activities like killing, tender and admission businesses and so on in the name of student politics. Nowadays student politics is neither people oriented nor educational; rather it is oriented toward personal interest and political gains. Student movements are not directed towards the betterment of students; rather this is pursued as a tool to strengthen party and individual position in the campus. Now-a-days, innocent students are bearing the brunt of student politics as they are often the victim of untoward incidents, including death. The regular students often sustain injury resulting from inter-party and intra-party student clash. Often these injuries turn fatal and lead to death. Unrest and atrocities sparked by student politics first hit Jahangirnagar University (JU) in the beginning of this year, while a series of such clashes erupted in other public universities like Shahajalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Comilla University, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Jagannath University and Chittagong University. The last political victim till now is Zubair Ahmed, a fourth year English department student in JU, who was brutally murdered on 9th January by some activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of JU, a student wing of the ruling party. In other universities as well, students are killed and blood shed in the name of student