Gono Odhikar Parishad leader Rashed Khan has alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Chhatra League retaliated with repeated attacks after Daksu student leaders rejected a proposal to grant Hasina lifetime membership of the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Daksu). Writing on social media, Rashed stated that before former Daksu VP Nurul Haque Nur and ex-Social Welfare Secretary Akhtar Hossain joined the meeting, leaders of the Student Rights Council had already decided against Hasina’s lifetime membership. Nur and Akhtar later echoed the same stance. “Hasina and the Chhatra League could not tolerate this ‘insult’ and took revenge through continuous attacks,” Rashed claimed. He added that although the 2019 Daksu election was dominated by the Chhatra League panel, the Student Rights Council won 11 posts, including VP and GS. “That election sowed the seeds of Hasina’s downfall. Our formal student politics began from there,” he said, pointing to the 2018 quota reform movement and subsequent Daksu election as pivotal moments that shaped the generation’s leadership.