New Delhi: The Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), Pakistan-backed student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh has emerged to be the main architect behind the turmoil in Dhaka that claimed the lives of 300 people and injured several hundreds since the beginning, as per sources.
In the past two years, the sources said that many Islami Chatra Shibir cadres have been admitted to various universities in Bangladesh.
Since the Pak-backed radical student organisation always wanted Sheikh Hasina out of power they began instigating students. Thus, the protesters demonstrating in the last two months over the controversial quota system for government jobs were identified as students belonging to these universities only.
The main hotspots of ICS are Dhaka University, Chittagong University, Jahangir University, Sylhet University, and Rajshahi University. It is to be noted that all the student organisations won elections in the past three years with the support of Islami Chatra Shibir.
The organisation is believed to have connections with ISI and many of the cadres have gone to Islamabad to join it.
Sources also stated that a few ISI members had joined the student movement by putting fake DPs of students and were engaged in instigating them on social media.
Amid the turmoil, Sheikh Hasina earlier alleged that Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing have been exploiting the protests and instigating violence.
Founded in 1975, the Jamaat-e-Islami is considered among the largest Islamist parties in Bangladesh. The party has allied with former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s BNP in the past.
Apart from student politics in India, the organisation also participates in the activities of Madrasa.
In the last few years, most of the JMB members arrested in India were cadres of Islami Chatra Shibir.
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