A group of Pro-Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology on Monday submitted a petition to the vice-chancellor requesting him to ensure a safe and free campus to express their opinions.
At a press conference held at the BUET Shaheed Minar on Monday afternoon, Tanvir Mahmud Shopnil, a civil engineering department student and Sagar Biswas Joy, a chemical engineering department student read out the petition.
The petition said, 鈥榃e, the BUET students, have been subjected to harassment and humiliation, both online and in person, by a certain group at various times on the campus.鈥�
Referring to the incident of March 29, the petition also said that some of the protesting students were trying to portray BCL as miscreants in front of everyone without any basis.
鈥榃e have submitted a complaint to the vice-chancellor about violence that has been started against us, but to no avail,鈥� it continued.
鈥榃e previously said that extremist organisations, including Hizbut Tahrir and Shibir, were active on the BUET campus. Today, BUET鈥檚 CCTV footage proves the truth of our allegations,鈥� it said.
At the press conference, the students demanded immediate action against those seen in the CCTV footage.
Mentioning the recent High Court order they also said that they did not want any extremist politics to persist on the BUET campus.
General students of the BUET have been waging a movement on the campus boycotting classes and examinations since March 29 to press home their demands, including expulsion of student Imtiaz Hossen, who is a central committee member of the BCL and some other students for resuming the BCL politics on the university campus on March 29 through a showdown, defying a previous ban on politics on the campus.
The High Court, responding to a writ petition filed by Imtiaz, on April 1 allowed activities of all political organisations on the campus.
The authorities of the BUET on April 20 decided to postpone the ongoing examinations and to reschedule and retake the examinations between March 30 and April 20 this year.
