2024-08-22 04:10:28
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal has published the list of 49 killed leaders and activists of its organization in the movement of students against quota discrimination.
Chhatra Dal president Rakibul Islam Rakib released this list in the briefing room of BNP’s central office in Nayapaltan of the capital on Wednesday (August 21).
He said that 49 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Chhatra Dal have accepted martyrdom in the mass uprising of the students.
Noting that more than a thousand students were martyred in the movement, he paid tribute to all the martyrs and expressed his condolences to their families.
Chhatra Dal president said that the departure of Chhatra Dal in July-August movement was unprecedented. The Chhatra Dal has given full support to the movement demanding quota reform from the beginning and under the banner of the anti-discrimination student movement, Chhatra Dal leaders and activists from all levels joined the common students and accelerated the movement. On July 16, Abu Saeed was martyred by the police in Rangpur. His death shook the whole world. On the same day Wasim Akram, a member of Chhatra Dal, the second Chittagong College branch of Chhatra Dal and the first Chhatra Dal, was martyred. Mehedi Hasan Rabbi, Senior Joint General Secretary of Magura District Chhatra Dal, was martyred.
At this time, the president of Chhatra Dal published the list of those killed. They are: Wasim Akram of Chittagong College, Arifur Rahman Russell of Dhaka Metropolitan (East) Chhatra Dal, Mahbub Alam of Sherpur Government College, Sabuj Mia of Srivardi Government College, Biplab Hasan of Gouripur Mozaffar Ali Fakir High School College, Mymensingh, Eamon Mia of Arjun Union, Bhuapur, Tangail, Magura District Mehdi Hasan Rabbi of Chhatra Dal, Raihanul Islam of Ulipur Chhatra Dal in Kurigram, Md of Lakshipur Government College. Shahid Kawsar Hossain Bijay, Fazle Rabbi of Dhaka Metropolitan (East) Chhatra Dal, Manik Mia Sharik of Munshiganj Mirkadim Chhatra Dal, Farid Sheikh of Rampal Chhatra Dal, Ismail Hossain Rabbi of Dhaka Metropolitan Chhatra Dal No. 40, Shaon of Sutrapur Thana Chhatra Dal, Shamim Howladar of Dhaka Metropolitan (West) Chhatra Dal, Irfan Bhuiyan of United International University, Munir Hossain of Chhatra Dal of Bhatara Thana, Imtiaz Ahmed Jabir of South East University, Tahidul Islam of Chhatra Dal of Dhaka Metropolitan (North), Pavel Hasan Rabbi of Matlab Chhatra Dal of Chandpur, Rafiqul Islam of Ward No. 7 of Shibaloy of Manikganj, Rakib Ahmed of Fatulla Union Chhatra Dal of Gazipur. Hriday Hossain of Gacha Metro Thana Chhatra Dal, Afiqul Islam Saad of Savar Chhatra Dal, Little Hasan Lallu of Pallabi Thana Chhatra Dal, Tanvir Hossain Mahmud of Noakhali’s Sonaimuri Bargaon Union, Sapta of Sharifpur Chhatra Dal of Jamalpur, Md of Jamalpur’s Dikpaive Chhatra Dal. Zahidul Islam, Ripanchandra Sheel of Ward No. 9 of Habiganj, Saiful Islam of Gujirkona Chhatra Dal of Durgapur Police Station, Netrakona, Mallik Afzal Miah of Jagannathpur Chhatra Dal of Sunamganj, Sumon Islam of Chhatra Dal No. 3 of Bodar of Panchagarh District, Sagar Ahmed of Mirpur College Chhatra Dal, Tanveer Raihan Alif of Jessore Chhatra Dal Bangla, Yusuf Ali. , Bagerhat Chitalmari Sher Bangla College Chhatra Dal Sabbir Mallik, Aminur Rahman College Ahad Ali, Magur Jagdal Union Raju Ahmed, Narsingdi Madhavadir Md. Shaon, Asif Hossain of Jalaluddin Degree College, Begumganj, Noakhali, Tanveer Siddiqui of Ashekan Auliya Degree College, Maheshkhali, Cox’s Bazar, Nurul Mostafa of Islamabad Union, Eidgah Upazila, Rakib Howladar of Ward No. 7, Jhalkathi, Muladi Government College. Sagar Gazi of Gallachipar Patuakhali, Riyaz, Russell Mahmud of Sonargaon University, Sumon of Sadarpur in Sirajganch district and Amjad Hossain of Shibpur Shaheed Asad College of Narsingdi.
The Chhatra Dal president said that in the continuation of the anti-dictatorship movement of the 90s and the movement of the Eleventh, the Chhatra Dal, as the vanguard of democracy against the dictator, joined with the students in the movement to overthrow Sheikh Hasina with full force, in which Sheikh Hasina fled the country after being defeated. 2100 Chhatra Dal leaders and activists were arrested in this movement, all of whom were subjected to police torture in custody.
Chhatra Dal president Rakibul Islam Rakib said that Chhatra Dal is not associated with violence and disorder. For the last 15 and a half years, the Chhatra Dal has survived hundreds of tortures and persecutions. None of our leaders are involved in any disorder, occupation. We have already issued press releases to let us know if anything like that happens anywhere.
Rakib also said that the Chhatra Dal held a mourning procession across the country including Dhaka at 3 pm in memory of the martyrs of the student movement.
At that time, Chhatra Dal general secretary Nashir Uddin Nashir said that Sheikh Hasina fled the country in the face of the popular uprising of students on August 5. For more than a century, every leader and activist of Chhatra Dal was determined to establish a democratic campus and a Bangladesh of equality and harmony. At the same time, the Chhatra Dal’s struggle for students’ rights in education is still active.
Nashir also said, we think that for a healthy politics in a campus, student politics is definitely needed to get the rights of students. It’s time to stop the politics of those students who have done terrorism, extortion, beating people to death, usurpation of power, robbery.
In addition to this, the senior vice-president of Chhatra Dal, Abu Afsan, said at the press conference. Yahya, joint general secretary Shyamal Mamun and other central leaders were present.