CU BCL stops strike at campus

Ruling Awami League’s student front Bangladesh Chhatra League has stopped its agitation at Chittagong University over reasons that the authorities are accepting their terms.

Md Alamgir Tipu, former president of campus unit dissolved-unit Chhatra League, said they decided to stop their strike at campus from today, our campus correspondent reports.

“We had three demands. Among them, the university has consented to two of them – release of our detained members and no lawsuit over the vandalism at campus yesterday,” he said.

He said, they are considering against their third demand – resignation of the campus’ proctor.

CU Vice Chancellor Dr Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury, however, told The Daily Star that the university authority will file a lawsuit and form a body to probe the incident of vandalism.

Rivaling factions of Chhatra League clashed at campus the day before yesterday, leading to a series of incidents including police action.

Leading from this, incidents of vandalism and scuffle with police took place at campus yesterday.