“Will the general students just look away while they barge into the VC’s office? They may be Chhatra League activists, but before everything else, they are students,” the ruling party’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader told the media on Wednesday.
He, however, said the BCL activists should not be spared if they were offenders, but added: “Those who broke into the VC’s office should also be punished.”
Nearly 1,500 BCL activists demonstrated on the campus to press their demand for the expulsion of students, who “attacked” the VC’s office.
The student body issued a 24-hour deadline for the university authorities to oust students involved in ‘harassing the VC’ and ‘assaulting female BCL activists’.
The demonstration, under the banner of general students, raised slogans against leftist students.
On Tuesday, protesters of a newly formed alliance of students who identify themselves as an ‘anti-repression group,' marched to the VC’s office. Leftist student leaders were at the forefront of movement.
At least 20 BCL activists led by General Secretary SM Zakir Hossain moved to rescue the vice-chancellor.
They attacked the protesters with iron rods to disperse them before chasing them away and assaulting them soon after at several locations on the campus.