Arifur Rahman
Most of the student organisations in Dhaka University want amendment to the university’s students’ union constitution so that the balance of power among the president and vice-president posts could be created. The organisations came up with their demands as they submitted their recommendations in writing to Dhaka University Central Students’ Union Constitution Amendment Committee on Monday. Bangladesh Students Union, Bangladesh Students Federation, Socialist Students Front, and Chhatra League (Jasod) demanded the balance of power among the president and vice-president and between other secretarial posts.
Leaders of these left-wing organisations said that some of the sections of the existing constitution gave supreme power to the vice-chancellor as ex officio president of the students’ union which often exceeded the power of the elected representatives. So there should be a balance of power between the president and the elected representatives, they added.
All these organisations also demanded that some posts should be created and some should be curtailed for a time-befitting constitution to hold the long awaited election. They also demanded provisions to set up polling centres outside the halls as most of the halls are forcibly occupied by Chhatra League leaders and activists.
Bangladesh Chhatra League’s university unit general secretary Saddam Hussain said they wanted changes in the constitution to let the fine arts faculty students join the polls as according to the present constitution they could not take part. Chhatra League demanded that the authorities should hold the election to DUCSU within first week of March.
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders in a press conference at its Naya Paltan office in the capital reiterated their demand to take measures to ensure coexistence of organisations on the campus before taking up plans to hold election to the central students’ union, which is defunct since 1990.
Bashar Siddique, Chhatra Dal DU chapter general secretary, while reading out a written statement also demanded that the authorities should ensure balance of power, form neutral election commission comprising indisputable teachers and setting poling centres outside the halls.
Earlier on October 31, the university authorities published the draft electoral roll with 38,493 possible voters for its long-awaited elections to the university central students’ union that has remained dysfunctional for more than two decades.
Around 14,509 female and 23,984 male students of 18 halls of the university have been included in the draft voter list of the students’ union, which spearheaded all democratic and cultural movements of the country.
- Courtesy: New Age /Jan 15, 2019
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