Resign within Monday: DU students issue ultimatum to home adviser
They issued the ultimatum after a short procession on the DU campus in the early hours of Monday (24 February), shortly after a gold trader was shot in the capital's Banasree by unidentified men.
A group of protesting Dhaka University students have issued an ultimatum for the Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury to resign within Monday (24 February) for failing to tackle the spiralling deterioration of the country's law-and-order situation.
They issued the ultimatum after a short procession on the DU campus in the early hours of Monday, shortly after a gold trader was shot in the capital's Banasree by unidentified men.
"Extortionists have risen again in the country. That means the home affairs advisor is unable to take effective action. You have given magisterial powers to the army. What role is the army playing?" one of the protesting students, Shakib Ahmed, said during a rally at the Anti-Terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture after the procession.
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"Today, we want to announce from Raju Memorial Sculpture that if the home affairs adviser does not resign by 1:00pm on Monday, we will take action at the field level. They will have to give an account of what each of them has done in the past six months," he added.
Another student, Nurul Gani Chagir said, "We want to say clearly - if you cannot solve the problem with your police, army, or RAB, then leave the responsibility to university students. We will not allow a single kidnapping or rape to happen in the country from today onwards."
Hundreds of students were seen to have joined the procession held in protest of the deteriorating law-and-order situation in the country. They returned to their halls after the rally.
Earlier, around midnight, a gold trader and was robbed and shot in the capital's Benasree. This came on the heels of numerous incidents of crimes which have rocked the country in recent weeks.
Earlier today, RAB Director General AKM Shahidur Rahman said the country's overall law and order situation can worsen in Ramadan as "extortionists backed by political parties are now committing robberies, mugging and other crimes amid a crackdown on extortions following the mass uprising on 5 August 2024".
