Clashes between anti-quota activists and Chhatra League are going on in Dhaka University (DU) area. This increases the number of injured students.
Asif Mahmud, the coordinator of anti-discrimination student movement, claimed that more than 200 students have been injured in the attack of Chhatra League.
This clash started around 5:30 pm on Monday.
It is known that there have been clashes between Chhatra League and quota activists in some places of Dhaka University. Both sides are engaged in back-and-forth chases.
Rods, sticks and hockey sticks were seen in the hands of BCL activists during the attack.
At least 91 people injured in the attack, beating and clash of the Chhatra League on the agitators in DU have received treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Injured students started coming to Dhaka Medical College Hospital from 4 pm today on Monday. By 5 pm, 91 people have been treated.
Agitators clashed with Chhatra League in front of Vijay Ekatar Hall of the University around 3 pm today. After that, BCL attacked the protesters in some places of the campus. When the agitators retreated, they were caught and beaten.
Almost all the injured persons are students of various educational institutions including Dhaka University. The Chhatra League claimed that some of them were also injured.
Meanwhile, BCL leaders chased the injured students who were taken to Dhaka Medical. Around 5:30 pm, a group of BCL leaders and activists went in front of the emergency department of Dhaka Medical and threw them out.
After that, there is an incident of chasing and pelting bricks on the road in front of Dhaka Medical.
Dr. Occasional cocktail explosions are happening on the road in front of Muhammad Shahidullah Hall.
It is to be noted that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said in response to a question about the quota reform movement at the press conference organized yesterday regarding the visit to China, ‘Why is there so much anger about the liberation war? The grandchildren of freedom fighters will get nothing, so will the grandchildren of Razakar get everything?’
The students of Dhaka University started protesting on Sunday night, complaining that the quota reform activists were called ‘children or grandchildren of Rajakar’ in this speech of the Prime Minister. First at night, the girl students of Rokeya Hall came out of the hall in a procession. They started chanting ‘Tumi ke ami ke, Razakar Razakar’. At one point, male and female students from all the halls of the university marched in groups and started protesting in front of the Raju sculpture of TSC. After about an hour and a half protest, they returned to the hall.
At the same time, the students of Chittagong and Rajshahi universities and other universities of the country also protested the Prime Minister’s speech at midnight.
Various universities of the country, including DU, became agitated on the same issue today. Around noon, hundreds of protestors came to Raju Bhaskar of DHA and took a stand. During this time, they raised various slogans demanding the withdrawal of the Prime Minister’s speech.
After that Chhatra League became active in the campus.