<p style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:#222222">Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka wasshut down indefinitely today after agitating students were attacked by anothergroup of students allegedly affiliated to Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL).<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:#222222">Thestudents were staging a sit in before the house of the Vice Chancellor of theUniversity demanding her resignation on corruption charges since yesterday.About 20 students and teachers were hurt in the attack.<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:#222222">However,the Jahangirnagar Unit President of BCL denied that Chhatra league membersattacked the agitating students. He said that there are allegations that somestudents are affiliated to Chhatra Shibir were involved in the agitation andthey want a a Shibir-free campus.<o:p /></span></p>''<p style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 16.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:#222222">The BCL isthe student wing of the ruling Awami League. Chhatra Shibir is the student wingof Jamaat-e-Islami. The Shibir is alleged to have links with terrorist groupJMB.<o:p /></span></p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:mangal;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:hi">The students have been demonstrating on campus since August 23, demandingthe removal of the university VC Prof Farzana for her alleged involvement incorruption and mismanagement of Tk 1,445-crore campus development project.</span>
News On AIR | November 6, 2019 3:05 AM
Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka shutdown indefinitely amid violence