Students demonstrating at TSC demanding the removal of the VC

The major panels which pulled out of election to Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) are demonstrating for removal of the university’s vice-chancellor.

The panels of leftists, independents, quota reformists and others were staging protests at TSC in rejection of the election and demanding a re-election to Ducsu.

Their demonstration was underway alongside the protests of ruling party’s front Bangladesh Chhatra League who have refused the new VP-elect Nurul Haque Nur.

“The election process is unacceptable, whatever the outcome may be,” said Liton Nandi, the VP candidate panel leader of Progressive Students Unity.

“If a Dhaka Unviersity student’s right to vote is snatched away, it can never be termed a fair election. If it was a fair election, we would have seen far different results,” he said.

Nur, the popular quota reformist leader, was elected VP in results declared. Chhatra League had the posts of general secretary and assistant general secretary.

“Results in the girls’ hall where irregularities were opposed saw independents elected. This shows how the results could have been in a fair election,” said Aroni Samonti Khan, the VP candidate of the independent panel at the protest.

She said: “The students are upset. They did not want to see an election to Ducsu like this after a long wait of 28 years.”

Source: thedailystar