From silence to surge, Shibir clinches JUCSU majority in first vote in 33 years

Islami Chhatra Shibir has taken 20 of 25 central posts in the Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union (JUCSU), marking a dramatic return to campus politics in the first student election held there in 33 years. Shibir-backed panel’s VP candidate Arif Ullah Adib, who did not win his race, “expressed satisfaction” with the results and reflected on what he described as a violent and repressive history for Shibir activists on the campus. “We have finally reached a point where we can speak in our identity,” he said after the results were declared on Saturday. “At Jahangirnagar, simply hearing the name ‘Shibir’ once meant being shot like a bird. If someone kills a migratory bird, there’s an investigation. But when someone kills...