Nurul Haque Nur of Shadharan Chhatra Adhikar Shangrakkhan Parishad and Golam Rabbani of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have been elected as vice president (VP) and general secretary (GS) of Dhaka University Students’ Union (DUCSU) respectively.
DU Vice Chancellor Prof MD Akhteruzzaman announced the result early on Tuesday (Mar 12) as the DUSCU elections were held on Monday (Mar 11).
Nur is a joint convenor of Bangladesh Council to Protect General Students’ Rights, which made headlines with protests for reforms to the quota system in civil service job last year.
An English Department student, Nur hails from the southern district of Patuakhali’s Golachipa Uapzila.
Rabbani, the general secretary of ruling Awami League’s student affiliation BCL, is a Law Department student.
He hails from Madaripur.
Boycott of most candidates on allegations of rigging and other irregularities marred the DUCSU election held for the first time since 1990.
BCL, however, dominated the polls to the residential halls clinching 12 vice-president posts out of the 18 residence halls.
Over 43,000 voters got registered to elect 25 leaders of the central committee and 13 each of 18 hall unions.

As many as 229 contested for 25 posts in the central union and 509 for 13 in each of the hall unions.

BCL won 23 other posts out of a maximum 25 in the central union. They lost the social services secretary post to Akhtar Hossain of Nur’s panel.

The winners of BCL in the central union include Sad Bin Quader (Liberation War affairs secretary), Arif Ibne Ali (science and technology affairs secretary), BM Lipi Akter (common-room and cafeteria affairs secretary), Shahrima Tanzina Orni (international affairs secretary), Mazharul Kabir Shoyon (literary affairs secretary), Shams E Noman (cultural affairs secretary), Shakil Ahmed Tanvir (sports secretary), and Rakib Howlader (student transport secretary).

The DUCSU members elected from BCL are Chibol Sangma, Nazrul Islam, Rakibul Hasan, Rakibul Islam Oitihya, Tanvir Hasan Saikat, Raisa Naser, Sabrina Iti, Ishat Kashfia Ira, Nipu Islam Tonni, Haider Mohammad Jitu, Tilottoma Shikder, Zulfiker Alam Russel, and Mahmudul Hasan.

Independent candidates won some posts in the hall unions after most of the panels announced boycott of the election by the end of voting.

They include the BNP’s Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal or JCD, a platform of leftist organisations, and Nur's panel.