Foreign Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday called for maintain both student politics and congenial atmosphere at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

He was addressing as the chief guest an Eid gift distribution ceremony on behalf of the prime minister on the premises of Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) at Dhaka University.

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) central committee organized the programme with its president Saddam Hussein in the chair. BCL general secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Enan conducted it.

Noting that student politics and Chhatra League were involved with all achievements of Bangladesh, Dr Hasan said Chhatra League had played role in the country’s struggle for independence, Liberation War and nation building activity in the post independence period.

The student organization also played role to free the country’s democracy when military dictators Zia and Ershad limited the democracy, he said.

He said many eminent politicians of the country were created through  student politics of BUET and they led the nation and still doing so.

“But I am astonished that student politics was stopped at BUET centering a tragic incident and a movement has also been waged to stop student politics. It is not democratic decision,” he said.

The decision of stopping student politics at BUET was inconsiderable one so that the court withdrew the university’s order of banning student politics on the campus and opened the door to student politics there, he said.