JCD's debacle far worse than imagined: Leaders

No one of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) candidates for the top three posts -- VP, GS and AGS -- managed to bag even 500 votes in the latest DUCSU elections, demonstrating a stunning fall of the BNP's student front which had won the top posts in the last election 28 years ago, reports UNB.

Talking to the news agency, some BNP and ex-JCD leaders said they had not expected good results in the DUCSU polls, but they could not imagine such a debacle of their student body.

They think lack of preparation, suitable candidates and strong committees at DU and its different halls, serious organisational weakness and running the organisation for long by non-students are the major reasons behind the very poor show of the student body in the DUCSU election.

Besides, some JCD leaders said a long gap has developed between common students and them as they could neither stay in halls nor enter the campus for over the last 12 years while Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) established its 'unilateral control' over the country's premier university.

They, however, believe JCD could have performed far better had the election been held in a free and fair manner.

General students said most JCD candidates were not known to them as they were not active on the campus for a long time.

They also think the Quota Reform Movement leaders filled the position of an alternative opposition student body on the DU campus through their strong role in favour of the common students in

JCD's absence.