Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Friday condemned the Jatiya Nagorik Party chief organiser for north, Sarjis Alam, for blaming the JCD over the clash between the private university students and Sarjis and his followers at the Bashundhara Residential Area in Dhaka.
The JCD president Rakibul Islam Rakib in a press conference at the BNP central office at Paltan in Dhaka claimed that neither any organisational activities of the JCD nor any leaders and activists were present at the place of the incident on Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, responding to journalists鈥� question at the Jatiya Nagorik Party鈥檚 press conference on Friday, Sarjis said that he did not blame the JCD in his Facebook post for the clash but talked about the involvement of a posted JCD leader, Ahmed Shakil, in the clash.
He urged the JCD to investigate the involvement of the leader and take organisational action against him.
A group of private university students clashed with Sarjis and his followers at the Bashundhara Residential Area.
Terming the clash as an unexpected and unfortunate incident, Rakib, in his written statement, said, 鈥榃e have observed a concerning and deliberate trend of implicating the name of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal in any untoward incident occurring in the country.鈥�
Rakib stated that the conflict between Sarjis and students of the North South University was rooted in the on-going internal dispute over the stake of private university and Dhaka University students in the Jatiya Nagorik Party and Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad.
Unfortunately, Sarjis Alam has attempted to politicise the incident by falsely blaming the JCD in a Facebook post. His claims are entirely baseless and fabricated, mentioned Rakib.
In Sarjis post, he insulted the NSU students and students of other educational institutions. He also labelled the NSU students as 鈥榯errorists, 鈥榤iscreants and street beggars鈥�.
鈥榃e strongly condemn his arrogant and hateful remarks,鈥� said Rakib, adding that Sarjis鈥� statement also undermined the private university students鈥� sacrifices during the July-August mass uprising.
Demanding Sarjis to withdraw his statement, Rakib also condemned the rehabilitation of the members of the Awami League-backed banned student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League as some of them were claimed to be present in Sarjis showdown.
He also said that the JCD had formed a two-member probe committee to investigate whether any JCD activist was present in the clash.
JCD general secretary Nasir Uddin Nasir and senior vice-president Abu Afsan Mohammad Yahya, among other JCD central leaders, were present at the press conference.