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| Gun-toting BCL man elevated |
| 2013-07-22 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] A leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... , who openly brandished firearms during a clash at Rajshahi University (RU) on October 2 last year, has been made general secretary of the university's BCL unit. There were also allegations of murder and robbery against SM Towhid Al Hossain Tuhin, former organising secretary of RU unit of BCL, party and police sources said. The decision to appoint Tuhin as its general secretary and Mizanur Rahman Rana as the president of BCL RU unit was taken at the party's council meeting in RU campus on Saturday. Awami League leader Mohammad Nasim and former mayor of Rajshahi Khairuzzaman Liton, however, said no one from BCL with a background of gun-toting, snatching and murder allegations would become a leader of its RU unit. Nasim and Liton were addressing the council meeting before it picked Tuhin as the general secretary of BCL, the student wing of Awami League. On October 2, Tuhin, then a third-year student of finance and banking department, was caught on camera by photojournalists while he was shooting from his gun during the clash between BCL and Shibir men. The Daily Star published a photo in its October 3 issue showing how Tuhin was holding an iron rod and also aiming a pistol at his rivals. It also ran two reports on Tuhin titled "Gun-toting BCL man sues others" on October 4 and "Gun-toting BCL men roam free at RU" on October 5 last year. Tuhin was also accused of killing Abdullah Al Hasan Sohel, joint convener of BCL's Sher-e-Bangla Hall unit, during a factional clash at RU campus on July 15, 2012. Boalia police filed a charge-sheet against Tuhin and two other youths in connection with their alleged involvement in a robbery on April 19, 2012. According to the charge-sheet, Tuhin committed a robbery at a house at Padma residential area in the city. |
| Posted by:Fred |