C T Online Desk: Coordinators and co-coordinators of the student-led movement that toppled Awami League government would launch a countrywide campaign Friday for revitalising the morale among fellow student protesters, they said at a press conference on Wednesday.
The press briefing was held at TSC of University of Dhaka under the banner of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
The reinvigorating drive would aim to deploy students across the country for sustaining the fruits of their revolution and for preventing a spate of corruption and covetous activities launched in the wake of Awami League government’s fall.
However, hopefully, the students would not overdo the measures as they would be tasked with following a set of policies and directives, a key coordinator named Abu Baker told reporters.
The coordinators would travel across the country in different groups to also listen to the demands and words of general people for disseminating these throughout the society. The society’s key stakeholders would hopefully work to fulfil people’s demands, said the leaders of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
Abu Baker also claimed that some are engaging in criminal activities like extortion and grabbing of properties in the name of the coordinators, denying the involvement of student protest leaders in the activities.
When asked about forming a political party, another coordinator Hasnat Abdullah said it is up to the general people to decide whether they want the students to form a party, and go past the Awami League-BNP duopoly in national elections.
He alleged that despite the fall of autocratic Awami League, the same pattern of authoritarian political practices are being carried out throughout the country in a different name, potentially taking a veiled dig at BNP, activists of which have been allegedly involved in extortion and grabbing activities.
