Now at the university, everything from getting a dorm bed to enrolling in a decent course is run by student political bodies. All the student wings have the power to shut down Dhaka Universitys campus if they call a strike, and can cancel examinations - which delays the graduation of tens of thousands of students. The recent activities of student politics in Bangladesh are not indicative of a problem with youth, but rather, a lack of vision by elected officials. After independence, dozens of students and non-students have been murdered in educational institutions due to campus violence triggered by venomous political parties student wings. Students claim that student leaders act like “gangsters” on campus, by eating at campus canteens for free, keeping the best student rooms and facilities for themselves and harassing professors or students who try to oppose them. Real student politics negotiates for enhancing research facilities, ensuring regular class and accommodation facilities, increasing the number of books in the library, organizing seminars, symposium, presentations, debate etc. But these are bygone, historical memories in Bangladesh.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:45:04 +0000
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