Young Generation is Under Threat of Distorted Politics

Going home couple of days ago I knew some crucial information about a neighbor HSC student. The student obtained talent pool scholarship both in class Five and Eight is now working as president of a socially abominable as well as extremist political party. Many cases, including vehicle burning are filed against him at the local police station. He could not attend the HSC exam this year due to the cases. This information made me so baffled and agog too. After a little inquiry I got such clues which are not positive anyhow for the future of the country.

Here, my intention is to talk about the impact of nasty politics on education sector of the country. Many changes have been happening in this country for last several years, but most of them are negative and have harmful influence. Specially students and young generation are affected by these nasty practices. It is very much disappointing that students are making plans how to burn vehicles, make hazards, chaos and get a post of a party at the age when generally a student should thinks how to make the best performance in examinations in order to build a bright career.

Getting admitted to the university, I started to look forward for a great dream, but very unexpectedly, I was victim of power practiced by political activists, denied from my rights and saw women friends and teachers to be teased, continuous oppression on progressive, free  thinkers and so on. It was the time since then I begun to learn university is such a ‘converter machine’ where students come to be destroyed. Many incidents, including the atrocity happened with Bisshyojit Ghosh, the offense with JnU teacher Lubna Jabin and Pohela Boishakh scandal of DU are still fresh and alive in my memory which were done by all those so called meritorious belonging to a particular ruling party. Truly, the

people who could finish their university life with talent, they are exceptional, not general, because the reality is very much ambivalent to them today. Although student politics made historical influence upon our language movement and independent war, it is just past today. The political crisis occurred in the higher education sector in Bangladesh is not new at all rather we have been experiencing it for last several years. The people who will build the future of the nation are now competing to take cost free goods from the cafeteria, do robbery and other hazardous and violent activities instead of studying attentively. These terrorism is directly grabbing  them by political leaders. Crucially, their big brothers’s hands are so powerful that they can be freed even occurring/after occurring bad practice against the honorable teachers. It is the ugly truth the administrations of the universities or colleges are often powerless against them. The matter of sorrow is not that the threat of nasty politics is solely destroying the culture of universities rather going into deep too.  The starting of bane has been rooted from the very beginning stages. The political activists are being created in Secondary stages. I learned there are at least two committees of different political organizations, each school across my union. The objective of these committees is to compete as well as beat the opposition. The conflict happening between Chaatra League and Shibir is very familiar to secondary students of these schools.

This effect of nasty politics is enough to disrupt the whole system of a nation. If it keeps wasting the talents,  we will be empty of merit soon. It may not far away!