The Democratic Student Alliance, a combine of seven student wings of left-leaning political parties, on Wednesday demanded the government take immediate steps to ensure security of students and common people.
Student leaders of the combine raised the demand while staging a demonstration on the Dhaka University campus protesting at repeated secret killings, state repression on labours, job cuts in the labour sector, border killing and mob violence.
Referring to the killing of anti-discrimination activist Jasim Uddin, East West University student Tajbir Hossain Shihan, American International University-Bangladesh student Mohammad Simanto and others, who were stabbed to death recently, they said that the government failed to ensure security for the students and people and unveil the causes behind the murder.
They demanded the government take steps to bring those involved to book immediately.
Jabir Ahmed Jubel, general secretary of the Revolutionary Student Unity, said that people expected assurance of all kinds of democratic rights and security from the new government but it failed to meet people鈥檚 expectations.
Condemning mob violence in the post-mass uprising period and killing of Bangladeshi nationals by the Indian Border Security Force, Jubel said, 鈥楾he government must take actions to bring an end to such brutality.鈥�
He also demanded the government to disclose all unequal agreements signed by the ousted Awami League with India and other imperialist countries.
Salman Siddiqui, president of Socialist Students鈥� Front, criticised the government saying that it was not working for the interest of the working class people, but rather for the bourgeoisie.
鈥楲abours are deprived of their basic rights. They are repressed and attacked by law enforcers when they took to the streets to press home their demands,鈥� said Salman, demanding an end to repression on labours and job cuts in the labour sector.
Besides, Bangladesh Students鈥� Union president Rageeb Nayeem and Democratic Students鈥� Council general secretary Fahim Ahmed Chowdhury spoke at the rally held at the base of Anti-Violence Raju Memorial Sculpture at the university.
The combine also brought out a procession that paraded different roads on the DU campus.