The Democratic Student Alliance has called for the prevention of depoliticisation conspiracies across the country and the establishment of safe and democratic environment in campuses.
In a joint statement, signed by student leaders of the alliance on Friday, they said that even though the rule of the Awami League had ended, the fascist system in the country had not been abolished.
Although there has been talk of democratic transformation of the state in the post-uprising period, the interim government has not announced a specific outline or timeframe for this transformation, said the statement.
The leaders also said that there was an opportunity to unite on numerous important demands regarding the academic environment of students, infrastructural crisis, administrative democratization and occupation-free campus, as well as the entire education system after the mass uprising.
However, from the outset, the call to ban politics created artificial divisions, the statement reads.
鈥業n the unstable period following the uprising, various opportunistic groups have implemented several serious decisions, including publicly humiliating teachers through mob justice, forcing them to resign, and banning student politics,鈥� said the alliance.
The leaders of the alliance also said that administrative decisions to ban student politics had already been made at various public universities, including Begum Rokeya University Rangpur, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Barishal University, Comilla University, and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
鈥楾hrough these actions, the democratic, constitutional, and civil rights of students with political ideologies are being undermined,鈥� added the statement calling for an immediate end to the ongoing disorder in educational institutions.
It also called for the withdrawal of the undemocratic decision to ban student politics, the reinstatement of student union elections, and a firm stance against terrorism and occupation on all campuses across the country.
The signatories of the statement were Salman Siddiqui, coordinator of the Democratic Student Alliance and president of the Socialist Students鈥� Front; Rageeb Nayeem, president of the Bangladesh Students鈥� Union; Dilip Roy, president of the Revolutionary Students鈥� Unity; Saiedul Hoq Nissan, president of the Democratic Students鈥� Council; Angkon Chakma, president of the Greater Chittagong Hill Tracts Hill Student鈥檚 Council; and Mitu Sarker, president of the Bangladesh Students鈥� Federation.