A group of Qawmi madrassah students allegedly attempted to draw calligraphy in Arabic in the Central Shaheed Minar area in the capital on Thursday.
They also planned to draw graffiti contradicting the 1952 language movement and recent student-led mass uprising, Dhaka University professor Tanzimuddin Khan of the international relations department confirmed the matter.
鈥楾he students of Dhaka University found some students of Qawmi madrassah who tried to draw Arabic language and graffiti in the Central Shaheed Minar area. They challenged the madrassah students and checked their draft sketches of graffiti when they saw that those sketches denied the achievement of the language movement of 1952 and the outsiders were trying to tag the recent student-led mass uprising as Islamic revolution,鈥� said Tanzimuddin Khan.
鈥榃hen asked, they said that they came from outside of the campus. One of them was Hedayetullah, an employee of Jamuna Television who took responsibility to release the outsiders from students. Hedayetullah also confirmed that the same calligraphy and graffiti was created in Chattogram while Hedayetullah received Tk 30,000 for this graffiti work as a contract,鈥� added Tanzimuddin Khan.
The students of Dhaka University later removed Arabic calligraphy from the Central Shaheed Minar area, Tanzimuddin said.
