A group of private university students on Wednesday night blocked Banglamotor in front of Student Against Discrimination office protesting at the formation of committee of Bangladesh Gonotantraik Chhatra Sangsad and the scuffle during the launching ceremony.
Traffic remained halted on Banglamotor-Shahbag road as the faction blocked the road after 9:30pm causing huge traffic congestion in the area.
One of the protesters, Shahjadi Fananna Kotha, claimed that during the blockade around 20 students were injured during the scuffles.
She said that private university students were ignored in the committee of the new organisation.
Denouncing the committee, she demanded justice for the attack on private university students, including female students and formation of new committee.
A group of leaders of the Student Against Discrimination that led the July-August mass uprising on Wednesday afternoon launched a new student organisation, Bangladesh Gonotantraik Chhatra Sangsad, amid protests and scuffles at the launching venue in Dhaka.
The scuffles occurred during the announcement of the new organisation at Madhu鈥檚 Canteen on Dhaka University campus.聽
Abu Baker Majumder was made the convener and Zahid Ahsan was made the member secretary of the six-member central convening committee of the BGCS.
Only one female member was included in the committee.
Of the six-member committee, five are from Dhaka University and one is from Jahangirnagar University.
Besides the central committee, a six-member Dhaka University committee was also announced in the event.
Besides Abu Baker Majumder and Zahid Ahsan, four other members of the central convening committee are Touhid Mohammad Siam (senior joint convener), Rifat Rashid (senior joint member secretary), Tahmid Al Muddassir Chowdhury (principal organiser) and Ashrefah Khatun (spokesperson).