Bangladesh Students’ Union will hold its 42nd national convention in Dhaka today.
The inaugural ceremony of the three-day convention with the slogan ‘the desire of mass uprising is a discrimination-free society and education system’ will be held at Aparajeyo Bangla sculpture on the Dhaka University campus.
The convention of the left-leaning student organisation will be inaugurated by Samsi Ara Zaman, mother of journalist Tahir Zaman Priyo, who was shot in head and killed on July 19 during the student-led mass uprising leading to the fall of the Awami League regime.
Rageeb Nayeem, president of the BSU, said that the organisation had a long history and its present and former leaders and activists and leaders of other student organisations would be present at the inaugural ceremony.
Council sessions will be held from April 24 to 26 at Teacher-Student Centre while a cultural and reunion programme will be held at the base of the Anti-Violence Raju Memorial Sculpture on the campus on the concluding day.Â
Based on four principles — unity, education, peace and progress — the student organisation was established on April 26, 1952 and the first convention was held in November that year.
