International Desk:
Winning at Daksu is not necessary, I just want to stay alive: Abdul Qader.
Abdul Kader, the vice president candidate of the anti-discrimination student council panel, has become apprehensive about the misinformation surrounding the Dhaka University Central Student Union (Daksu) elections. In a Facebook post on Thursday afternoon, he stated, ‘I don’t want to win in Daksu, I just want to stay alive.’
Abdul Kader became known as the coordinator during the July mass uprising by announcing a 9-point agenda. Last year, during the anti-government protests, when seven coordinators were detained at the DB office, Kader’s messages sent to the media would outline the programs of the anti-discrimination student movement. After the fall of the Awami League government, he became the convener of the Bangladesh Democratic Students’ Council at Dhaka University, which was formed with students who were at the forefront of the uprising. He is a residential student of the 2018-19 session at the Victory 71 Hall of Dhaka University.
Among the candidates for the VP position in the upcoming Daksu elections, Abdul Kader is one of those in the discussion. Expressing his fear, he wrote on Facebook, ‘I don’t need to win in Daksu, I just want to stay alive. I request at least this much compassion to be shown to me.’
‘Since the time we started talking about that collaborator, it keeps increasing every day,’ Abdul Qader wrote, ‘Since then I cannot sleep, I wake up in the middle of the night; my body trembles. How much more can one do about a single person? How much patience does a person have? I don’t know how many more days I can endure this.’
‘Even if this harassment was limited to online, it could have been tolerated, but they are going as far as to speak to my mother at home!’ Abdul Kader has noted. In a Facebook post, he further wrote, ‘They could have avoided spreading propaganda by cutting my statement from 10 days ago. If the entire statement was presented, people would have understood the essence of it. This is just the beginning, there are still 5 days left. Just thinking about what might happen by then makes me even more traumatized.’
Asked about this, Abdul Quader told Prothom Alo, “Propaganda is being spread against me. Propaganda is being spread by adding a part of the previous fragmentary speech. Deliberate propaganda is being spread against me with a bot account (fake Facebook ID). ’
