Terming the results of the recently concluded Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) election as ‘unusual’, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday expressed suspicion there might be the government’s mechanism behind it. “The result is unusual and there are many irregularities. It can be said within a couple of days as to whether there was a mechanism in the PMO or any blueprint of the mechanism was made from the vice-chancellor’s Fuller Road residence,” BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said at a press conference at the party’s central office.

Rizvi also said there was a fixed panel vote from the VP to member posts in every students’ union election, but there is a huge difference between the VP and GS candidates of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and the General Students’ Forum backed by quota reform movement.

The BCL panel, backed by the ruling Awami League, obtained all the posts, except the VP and social welfare secretary posts, in the DUCSU election, which was held amid allegations of various irregularities and boycotted by most of the panels.

Nurul Haque Nuru of the General Students’ Forum was elected as the VP of the DUCSU.   

Stating that an unprecedented incident in the history

of the DUCSU took place on Monday, Rizvi accused the DU vice-chancellor of tarnishing the glorious tradition of the university.  

BNP chairperson’s adviser Shahida Rafiq, joint secretary general Khairul Kabir Khokan, Abdus Salam Azad, among others, were present at the press conference.