The newly-elected vice president (VP) of Dhaka University Students Union (DUCSU), Nurul Haq Nur has taken charge in contradiction to his prior remarks in which he often tuned up with the students calls for refraining from taking the office.
As the new DUCSU central committee took charge on Saturday (Mar 23), a group of students demonstrated on the campus rejecting the Mar 11 election held after 28-years of hiatus.
The protesters were seeing showing ‘red card’ in an apparent rejection of the DUCUS election and its newly-elected leaders.
“Irregularities marred the polls,” said one of the protesters GM Zilani Shuvo .
Shuvo said they showed ‘red card’ rejecting the people who have given credibility to this election of ‘irregularities and rigging’.
VP Nur, however, said otherwise.
When asked why taking charge defying the students’ call, the new VP avoided question rather coming up with a plausible explanation.
“I wouldn’t have taken charge, if the students didn’t want,” Nur told Bangla Tribune after the first meeting of the DUCSU central committee was held on Saturday.
On Mar 19, Nur told the media that if the students want him to assume of the office of DUCSU VP, “only then I will take charge”.
Responding to a query on student protests on Saturday, the Nur said, “They showed red card to the [DUCSU] elections, not to me.”
Nur said he assumed office to continue to raise voice for a fresh DUCSU.
“I have spoken for them [students],” he said before calming that raising voice for students is as much as similar to understand them.
Nur said, “Ill-politics of muscle power has spread over the years as there was no DUCSU elections for 28 years and students want an end to it.”
Students want the people with responsibility will press for fresh polls as the [DUCSU] election turned controversial, he added.
The protesters, however, think the new VP and other leaders of the DUCSU have ‘deceived’ the students.
“By taking charge, they have deceived the university’s students,” said Shuvo, who is the president of leftist Bangladesh Chhatra Union.