Physically challenged Joshiah Sangma Chibol, popularly known as Chibol Sangma, was elected as member of the DUCSU emerging as the highest vote-receiving aspirant among the candidates, reports BSS.
Twenty-four year-old Sangma, a master's student of Sanskrit Department, and a member of minority ethnic Garo community, got admission under 2014-15 sessions. The ever-smiling Sangma, who could not move without wheelchair since he was one-year-old, attained the status to be a member of DUCSU though its much-talked about March 11 polls that held after nearly three decades. It was not an easy journey for him to be a DUCSU leader as his entire life went through different hurdles.
In 1995, he was born with a rare genetic disease Osteigenesis Imperfecta (OI), a fragile bone condition from birth, to NGO worker Phanindra Sangma and housewife Botika Sangma, resident of Mirpur in Dhaka and hailed from Dhobaura upazila in Mymensingh.
"I am on wheelchair since I was 11. I face different problems throughout my student life," Sangma said on Friday in an interview with the news agency.
While he was a student of second grade school in the capital, the school authorities considered the necessary measures and extra cares that should be taken for physically challenged students as a burden on them.
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