BCL can’t be contained

It is futile to ask this government to rein in the unruly Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student front of Awami League, a party that is in power for about a decade with the help of law enforcing agencies and muscle power of the BCL and Jubo League.
The nation is used to seeing how the members of BCL as well as Jubo League pound upon opposition activists not just at the campuses but also outside. Whenever protest processions are organised, they appear with their much known ‘helmets’ on their heads to attack the precisionists however peaceful they are.
These people give service to the ruling party government and in return they extort money from people wherever that is possible, not to mention that they invariably receive tenders for works on the campuses. For these so-called students who barely bother to become educated individuals, doing BCL means it is a source of money income.
Several days ago news appeared in the mainstream media that BCL leaders were caught when they tried to mug people. People were not surprised with this news. It is normal for them. These so-called student politicians have created a reign of terror at the campuses.
The ruling party is using these students as its muscle power and it is really naïve for some people to suggest that the government will control them since the government itself is benefitted by their role however unlawful it is. Their unruliness is the government’s advantage and the police also do not take any action against them. Sometimes the law enforcing agency nabs some BCL members for their criminal acts and this is only for camouflaging the inner intent.
That is why, we are not much hopeful about the concern the High Court expressed recently (Thursday) over torture on students in residential halls of different educational institutions against the backdrop of physical torture on a female student of Islamic University Bangladesh in Kushtia by a group of BCL leaders and activists.