BCL must be saved: Suranjit

The activities of several Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists have been tarnishing the Awami League's student front's glorious history, Suranjit Sengupta has said.

"Chhatra League must be saved," the Awami League advisory council member told a discussion in Dhaka on Friday.

His comments came after a BCL activist was killed in a factional clash at the Shahjalal University of Engineering and Technology (SUST) a day ago.

But the BCL claims 'outsiders' had clashed on the campus.

Sengupta criticised Finance Minister AMA Muhith and Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid over the clashes.

Both Muhith and Nahid are MPs from Sylhet.

"The finance minister is an MP from the locality. I'd like to tell him to at least go there (SUST) and say 'rubbish-khabish (devil)'," Sengupta said.

Sylhet-1 MP Muhith has often made headlines for uttering the word 'rubbish' while Moulvibazar-3 MP Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali was once criticised for dubbing journalists 'khabish', a derogatory term.

Sengupta is an MP from Sunamganj-2.

He said both Muhith and Nahid had gone to the Sylhet's MC College when its residential hall was burned. Nahid had wept there.

"I'd like to tell the education minister, it doesn't matter whether you can do anything, just go to SUST once and cry," he said.

The Awami League leader expressed concerns that the achievements of the Awami League chief Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina were being marred by the senseless activities of several people.

"Time is running out, it is high time we bring back the Chhatra League, nurtured by Bangabandhu [Sheikh Mujibur Rahman], on the right path," said Sengupta.