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Chaos At Bangladesh’s Top Engineering University As Court Lifts Ban On Student Politics

Bangladesh’s top court has stayed a ban on campus politics at BUET, where it has emerged as a divisive issue. The ban, it has been alleged, gave extremist groups a free run on campus.

One of Bangladesh’s most prominent educational institutions finds itself in chaos over a years-long conflict centred on student politics. On 1 April, the country’s top court stayed a five-year-old ban on student politics on the campus of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), leading several students to boycott classes. The conflict, however, began in the days before, when the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the country’s ruling Awami
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