Comments on student hoodlums

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=86845

I am really disgusted with the hoodlums of the BCL that are trying to 'change' everything in Bangladesh. They essentially have not learned an iota of wisdom from history and give a bad name to student politics and what it had done to our nation. They forget that public hate arrogance of power, as much as they hate crime and corruption. Liking a leader does not mean disrobing another, nor removal of someone's bust of sculpture.

If these hoodlums had any common sense they could have easily found a new place, even within the same compound, to put the bust of Sk. Mujib, without having had to remove the old one 'Shelly.' But what we see is a sickening display to removing everything old. So, airports, hospitals, colleges, etc. with an old name are replaced with a new name, thus, trying to obscure history, if not totally erase its past. Not surprisingly, we don't have any more Salimullah Hall, Iqbal Hall, and even not the PG Hospital. Instead we have new names that only show our narrow-mindedness, a moth-eaten understanding of history, as if the history started only from 1971. Lost there is the past connection to the present.

Why can't the political leaders of today build a new structure and name that under whatever name they like? People won't have any problem identifying their contribution to that building or structure. But no, they won't. Because it is easy to give a new name than to build one. Thus, they go after changing the old names on which they had nothing to contribute to. Shame on them and shame on their student chelas!

I support Mandal's view wholeheartedly, and echo his voice: "I am a great fan of Bangabandhu .... Of course there can be a sculpture of Bangabandhu on the hostel premise. But why it replaces my creation?"