Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Saturday demanded punishment for banned Bangladesh Chhatra League activists involved in criminal activities.
Leaders and activists of JCD raised two-point key demand including proper justice and punishment for all criminal activities carried out by the BCL, the banned student wing of the Bangladesh Awami League, in educational institutions during聽 Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 fascist regime at a programme titled 鈥楳arch for Justice鈥�.
They also demanded investigations and appropriate measures against collaborators of fascism, particularly those who supported suppressive actions during the student-led mass uprising that forced Hasina to flee to India bringing an end to a 15-year fascist AL regime.
They said that the interim government had failed to arrest top BCL activists involved in criminal activities and demanded their immediate arrest.
JCD president Rakibul Islam Rakib demanded a ban on underground politics in universities.
There is no reality for underground politics after the fall of fascist regime, Rakib said, adding that if any student organisation is still involved in underground politics, they will be thought to be involved in conspiracy like 1971, said Rakib.
He condemned attempts by a group to destroy the unity among students and the masses that was formed during the uprising.
He demanded all university administrations publish investigation committees鈥� reports regarding the criminal activities and to expel those responsible.
JCD senior vice-president Abu Afsan Mohammad Yahya said, 鈥楾he defeated forces of 1971 and 2024 are trying to forge an alliance.鈥�
BCL activists carried out criminal activities on the campuses during Hasina鈥檚 fascist regime and the uprising.
University administrations supported BCL in carrying out those activities, Afsan said, adding that those BCL activists and collaborators are not being tried and punished.
鈥楢ll the criminal activities of the BCL must be tried,鈥� said Afsan.
Hundreds of JCD leaders and activists, mostly from Dhaka and nearby cities, attended the March for Justice procession stretching from the Dhaka Club point of Shahbagh to the Supreme Court main gate.
Beginning from Shahbagh, the procession marched towards Teacher-Student Centre at Dhaka University and ended at Central Shaheed Minar with a rally.
