It demands punishment for BCL activists
Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Friday announced its ‘March for Justice’ programme to be held on Saturday demanding punishment for Bangladesh Chhatra League activists involved in criminal activities.
The programme will uphold a two-point 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 Sheikh Hasina’s fascist regime.
It will also call for 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.
JCD president Rakibul Islam Rakib and general secretary Nasir Uddin Nasir announced the programme and urged all JCD members, activists and student communities to join the march, said a press
release, signed by JCD office secretary Jahangir Alam.
March for Justice is scheduled to begin in front of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in the capital marching towards the Central Shaheed Minar at 2:00pm.
The government on October 23, 2024 banned the AL-backed student body BCL under the Anti-Terrorism Act on allegation of its involvement in breaching public security in various ways in the past 15 years.
Earlier, Students Against Discrimination, a platform that led the uprising, held March for Justice in courts, campuses and roads across the country, to press home nine-point demand including trial for attacks, enforced disappearances and killings of students and ordinary people during the uprising on July 31.