BCL activists attack Chhatra Odhikar Parishad activist, says a Parishad member

PBC NEWS DESK: Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad said that a group of activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League attacked their regular Qwwali programme at the TSC of the Dhaka University on Thursday evening.

But a BCL leader rejected the allegation.

Asif Mahmud, former vice president of DU Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, said that the BCL activists beat a member of their group when he arrived at the TSC to join about a dozen of them who gathered there to sing Qwwali songs.

Mahmud said they left the place after sensing danger, but their friend Lutfor Rahman was attacked when he arrived at the scene late.

Mahmud accused Dhaka University Chhatra League General Secretary S Tanbir Hasan Saikat of asking his followers to attack Lutfor, but he denied the allegation.

After the attack, Lutfor Rahman was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment as he was injured badly, his friends said.

Asked, Saikat said he had no idea about any attack.Lutfor is a student of Arabic Department of Dhaka University of 2016-17 academic session and was former cultural affairs secretary of Chhatra Odhikar parishad of DU unit. He is also one of the founders of Silsila, the Qwwali music brand of Dhaka University.