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The ruling Awami League has nominated Mahmud Hasan Ripon, former president of Bangladesh Chhatra League, for the Gaibandha-5 by-polls.

The academic atmosphere, residential facilities, and food quality in hall-dining areas have significantly improved following the ban on student politics on Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) campus, said different stakeholders of the university.

The private universities in Bangladesh are doing just fine without the presence of partisan politics or the violent student politics promoted and practised by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of the ruling Awami League.

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

Educational institutions must have the freedom to decide on student politics

A culture of fear exists in Bangladeshi universities and society in general. When we look at our youth today, we can see what danger and uncertainty they are being hurled into in the name of cementing political power.

Why is there such an aversion to party politics?

Some were accused in murder cases while others were expelled from the organisation for criminal activities. But that didn't stop the BCL central committee from awarding them top positions of its units at three public universities.

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

The organisational charter clearly states that the central executive committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League can have a maximum of 301 members, but now it has around 700.