Chhatra League expels 4 RU leaders, activists for involvement in proxy exam racket

Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League on Saturday evening expelled four leaders and activists of its Rajshahi University unit for their involvement with proxy exam racket and abducting and torturing a student of Rajshahi University for ransom.

The expelled men are --Rajshahi University unit BCL organising secretary Mushfik Tahmid Tonmoy, Sher-e Bangla Fazlul Haque Hall unit joint general secretary Raju Ahmed, and activists Mohibul Momin Sonet and Shakoan Siddique Prangon.

Among them, Mushfik Tahmid Tonmoy was expelled from the organisation in 2022 for his involvement with the proxy examination racket. However, his expulsion order was withdrawn four months later in December 2022 by the BCL central committee.

Tonmoy, also a resident of Shah Mokhdum Hall, was one of the eleven BCL leaders who were identified by government agencies in November, 2017 for their alleged involvement in drugs and Yaba businesses.

A press release signed by BCL central committee office secretary Meftahul Islam Pantho on Saturday evening stated that in view of an unwanted incident happened recently, the four leaders of Rajshahi University unit had been expelled from the organisation for their involvement in anti-organisational, anti-disciplinary and criminal activities.

Earlier on Friday, the four BCL men were prosecuted in two separate cases for their involvement with proxy exam racket and abducting and torturing Ahsan Habib, who came to the university campus with his mother on Thursday to get enrolled at the population science and human resources department, for ransom.

The cases were filed with Motihar police station by RU registrar Professor Md Abdus Salam and Rehena Begum, the mother of the student allegedly tortured by BCL men.

However, BCL leader Mushfik Tahmid Tonmoy denied the allegation and claimed that someone inside the party was hatching conspiracy against him so that he could not contest in the upcoming RU BCL council.

Earlier, law enforcers and RU administration detained seven people including an assistant upazila social service officer at Gaurnadi upazila social services office in Barishal on charge of acting as proxies on behalf of admission seekers in the entrance test for the arts, law, and social science faculty on May 31.