Login Latest Bangladesh Politics World Business Opinion Sports Entertainment Jobs Lifestyle Video Search E-paper Eng Login Bangladesh DUCSU Archive Protest over Jinnah's photo display, administration to take action Reporter Dhaka University Update: September 14, 2026, 20:24 Student Abu Tayeb Habildar tore three pictures of Muhammad Ali Jinnah at the DUCSU archive. Monday around 2:30 PM Photo: Prothom Alo A controversy has arisen over the display of pictures of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, in the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) archive. Yesterday, Monday, an angry student of the university protested by tearing three pictures of Jinnah from the archive. Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Bangladesh Chhatra Union have also protested.
As soon as the news of Jinnah's pictures being kept in the DUCSU archive became public, criticism began on social media from Sunday night. Many expressed their anger by posting statuses on Facebook.
In protest of Jinnah's picture display, the Student Federation hung a picture of former Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Ghulam Azam being beaten with shoes in the DUCSU archive yesterday afternoon.
After a day-long protest and criticism, the Dhaka University administration has assured an investigation into the matter and promised to take action. To this end, an investigation committee has been formed with Professor Mohammad Almozaddedi Alfechani, the university's Pro-Vice Chancellor (Administration), as convener.
Rare photographs, newspaper clippings, and important documents of various historical events of the subcontinent and Bangladesh's independence struggle are preserved in the DUCSU archive. The archive was reopened last Sunday after renovation. Three new pictures of Muhammad Ali Jinnah were placed there. One of these pictures is from an event on March 21, 1948, at the then Race Course Maidan (Suhrawardy Udyan), where he declared, 'Urdu alone shall be the state language of Pakistan.' Also included were a group photo from the All-India Muslim League's annual conference in Lahore in March 1940 and a newspaper clipping of a Dawn newspaper report. Additionally, a picture of former Chhatra Sangha leader Abdul Malek was placed. However, no individual or glorious picture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the leader of Bangladesh's independence struggle, which was there before, was included.
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