The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement has called an emergency press conference and released the list of the four main leaders of the private university convening committee.
The press conference was organized at the central office of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement at Bangla Motor at 10 pm on Wednesday (February 19). Rifat Rashid, executive member of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, announced the committee.
The committee was officially announced on the 16th of this month. M.J.H. Manju, a student of European University, is in the combined private university convening committee. He will serve as the convener. Atiq Shahria, a student of North South University, is the member secretary. Omar Faruk, a student of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, has been made the main organizer and Sabina Yasmin, a student of ULAB University, has been made the spokesperson.
In a written statement at the press conference, Rifat Rashid said, "In the July mass uprising, more than 2,000 students of government, semi-government, private schools, colleges and madrasas, and countless workers and the public lost their lives. Fifty thousand people were injured. The countrymen are aware of the leading role of private universities in this fight to free the country from tyranny. We lost countless classmates, brothers and friends in the bloody July. Their sacrifice has made us pledge to remain uncompromising on the issue of the country and sovereignty.
Rifat said that the combined private universities of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement will recognize Northern University's Shahid Asif as the first martyr and Southeast University as the university of the highest martyr on July 18 at 11:30 am. Naeem Abedin, a member of the central executive committee of the Anti-Discrimination Movement, said, "When the police were attacking RAB public universities everywhere, your Rampura Badda Uttaranchal and private university students in Sylhet and Chattogram." Sheikh Hasina kept the middle class and upper middle class away from politics, now they have learned to speak.
Zahid Ahsan, a central member of the platform, said, "Private universities did not only cooperate with us in July, they have cooperated before as well. The journey of private universities did not start with this movement, they have also cooperated with us politically before. We have found a new political community in the July mass uprising. One of them is the students of private universities. We have to keep these students of private universities in politics. Getting them involved in politics is one of our biggest responsibilities."