Biplabri Chhatra Parishad has demanded the banning of Chhatra League as a fascist student organization for the alleged involvement of Abrar Fahad, a talented student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and student massacre in July.

This demand was made in a rally before a protest march held at Dhaka University on the occasion of Martyr Abrar's Day against Indian aggression.

In addition, demands were made for financial compensation, job provision, cancellation of all unfair agreements with India and ensuring Bangladesh's fair share of common international river water to the students who were victims of BCL torture.

Abdul Waheed, Convener of Revolutionary Students' Council, addressed the gathering - Hasan Arif, National Revolutionary Council's Coordinator, Abdus Salam and Abbas Uddin, Joint Conveners.

Also spoke the convenor of Dhaka University branch of Biplabli Chhatra Parishad, Sanwara Khatun, central joint convenor Yamin Sarkar, assistant member secretary Hamim Hossain Shubo, Md. Shafiq and Jihadi Ihsan etc.

Abdul Waheed said in the rally that Shahid Abrar Fahad was brutally beaten to death overnight by Chhatra League cadres for writing anti-Indian aggression status on Facebook. Even though five years have passed since the incident, BCL as an organization has not been prosecuted. Therefore, the BCL, which has repeatedly passed without trial, did not care to initiate the July massacre.

He alleged that after the current leaders and activists of Chhatra League attacked, the former leaders and activists of the organization working in police, BGB and RAB carried out mass murder on the students. In this situation, there is no alternative to ban the Chhatra League as a fascist organization.

For this reason, the convener of Biplapbi Chhatra Parishad demanded that the government and the authorities of all educational institutions, including Dhaka University, ban the Chhatra League through the Senate-Syndicate.

He also said that the BCL has continuously tortured thousands of students in the last 16 years, handed them over to the police, did not allow them to participate in classes and examinations properly, and even excluded them unfairly in the name of verification in employment recruitment.

Abdul Wahed urged to set up an anti-fascist commission to remedy these injustices and determine the fair value of the physical, mental, academic and professional losses of the oppressed students.

He said that Abrar Fahad was martyred for protesting Indian aggression. Therefore, all aggressive and unfair agreements with India should be cancelled. He also commented that these agreements are illegal because the fascist Hasina regime made them.

At the end of the rally, the leaders and activists of Revolutionary Students' Council took out a procession from Raju Bhaskarya. Slogans like 'Shaheed Abrar, Law Law Salaam', 'Delhi Na Dhaka, Dhaka Dhaka', 'Ban Chhatra League immediately' were raised in the procession. The procession circumambulated all the important roads of the campus.

Incidentally, Abrar, a resident student of BUET's Sherebangla Hall and a second-year student of electrical engineering department, was brutally beaten to death by Chhatra League leaders and activists on the night of October 6, 2019, due to his status on Facebook about the unequal agreement between Bangladesh and India and water encroachment. Later, the police recovered his body from the stairs of the hall at around 3 pm.

This incident caused a storm of condemnation across the country. A murder case was filed. The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DB) filed a charge sheet on November 13, 2019 accusing a total of 25 people in that case. Then on September 15, 2020, the complaint was framed in the case. The court sentenced 20 of them to death. Besides, five people have been sentenced to life imprisonment.