Chhatra Union’s 38th nat’l council begins

The 38th national council of Bangladesh Chhatra Union began on Sunday at Dhaka University with a call for forging a student-people unity to protect education and culture. 
The council session will elect the new central leadership of the student organisation.
Professor emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury inaugurated the four-day event near the historical Aparajeya Bangla on the Dhaka University campus, hoisting the national and the organisational flags.
On the occasion, he said, ‘Students must unite to uphold the spirit of the Liberation War — a non-communal and discrimination-free society through education.’
Commenting that the capitalists and the imperialists force were creating disparity around the world, the eminent educationist also said, ‘Those who understand, and those who are conscientious and democratic need to join 
the common people, working classes of the country; only then things will change.’ 
He urged leaders and activists of Chhatra Union to continue their movement towards a social revolution to build a Bangladesh imbued with the spirit of the Liberation War.
Chhatra Union president Lucky Akter said that the student front had been playing a pivotal role in spreading the light of knowledge to remove darkness and inequality from the society.
She vowed that her student union would continue their movement against commercialisation of education, communalism and disparity.
All Nepal National Free Students Union’s general secretary Sunita Baral, Socialist Youth Union of Sri Lanka’s Avyarannya Acharya, Girish Ananda Pande of India also expressed solidarity in the inaugural ceremony. 
A cultural programme was held near Raju memorial sculpture in the afternoon.
The four-day council features an international seminar on April 3 at the TSC auditorium at Dhaka University and the council session on April 4 and 5, to be attended by 600 councillors.

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