The authorities of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology have banned student politics on its campus again.
The decision, despite a High Court order on April 1 allowing student politics on the BUET campus, was taken in the backdrop of the demand of 'general students' to ban partisan political activities on the campus.
Officials said that BUET authorities had also planned to ban teachers鈥� and employees鈥� politics on the campus.
The students鈥� demand to ban politics on the campus became louder since the July movement for quota reforms in government jobs that turned into a student-mass uprising and forced Sheikh Hasina to resign as prime minister and flee to India on August 5.
An urgent press release issued on Saturday and signed by the BUET registrar, Professor Md Forkan Uddin, read that the students of the university would not be allowed to be involved in any political party or any other organisations.
The release said that the students would be allowed to be involved in activities of the university-approved clubs or societies.
It warned that the authorities would take punitive actions if anyone was found violating the university authorities鈥� decision.
The decision was taken in the 503rd urgent meeting of the university academic council on September 21 to stop the practice of political polarisation and improve the position of the university as an academia.
BUET Directorate of Student鈥檚 Welfare director professor Mohammad Al Amin Siddique told 抖阴精品 on Monday that there was also potentiality to ban the politics of the university鈥檚 teachers and employees.
He said that they would require a syndicate meeting to take such a decision.
Officials at the university said that the BUET authorities on September 25, responding to a complaint from BUET students, canceled seats allocated for the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the Awami League, at the residential halls of the university.
On October 11, 2019, the university authorities banned political activities on the campus following general students鈥� protests in the wake of the killing of BUET student Abrar Fahad by some BCL leaders and activists at the university鈥檚 Sher-e-Bangla Hall on October 7, 2019.
General students of the BUET held a month-long movement on the campus by boycotting classes and examinations since March 29 this year demanding a ban on student politics on the campus and the expulsion of Imtiaz Hossen, a central committee member of the BCL, and some other students who on the day resumed BCL activities on the campus through a showdown, defying the October 11, 2019 ban on campus politics.
The High Court, responding to a writ petition filed by Imtiaz, on April 1 allowed political activities on the campus.
After the student movement in July and the August 5 fall of Awami League regime amid a student-mass uprising, a section of students had been demanding a ban on campus politics.
Besides BUET, authorities of different universities and colleges including Dhaka University, Rajshahi University, Dhaka Medical College, and Chittagong Medical College have so far banned politics on their campuses.