Opinion | A Tale Of Two Student Uprisings In Bangladesh — One Led To Mujib’s Rise, Another To His Downfall

Seven decades ago, it was a student movement that brought Mujib into prominence. Today, his legacy is being systematically erased by the students as they vandalise his statues and throw away his portraits.

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Student movements and sociopolitical transformations in Bangladesh have always been intertwined. In 1946, the chief architect of modern-day Bangladesh (erstwhile East Pakistan), Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, popularly called Mujib, was elected the general secretary of the Islamia College Students Union. He was an activist of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League, and a member of the All-India Muslim League Council from 1943 onwards. Bangabandhu, as he was nicknamed later on, was a founding member of the