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New Delhi: Another student leader was shot in Bangladesh on Monday, days after the murder of youth leader Osman Hadi.
The deceased leader has been identified as Motaleb Shikder. Motaleb was shot in Khulna as assailants targeted his head, according to the Daily Star.
Animesh Mondol, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Sonadanga Model Police Station, was quoted by the newspaper as saying: “Miscreants opened fire targeting his head around 11.45 am, and he was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital in critical condition.
The officer said Motaleb was out of danger. He explained that the bullet entered through one side of his ear, grazed the skin, and exited through the other side.
Motaleb is a leader of the National Citizen Party (NCP). He serves as its Khulna divisional chief and central organiser of NCP Sramik Shakti, as per a Facebook statement on the incident by the party’s joint principal coordinator, Mahmuda Mitu.
The NCP was launched by the Students Against Discrimination and the Jatiya Nagorik Committee in Bangladesh after the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. On February this year, the party was set up as the first student-led political outfit in Bangladesh's history.
Earlier, on December 12, Osman Hadi, a Bangladeshi leader from the 2024 student uprising, was shot by assailants in Dhaka. He succumbed to his gunshot wounds on Thursday.
Hadi was airlifted from Bangladesh to the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at Singapore General Hospital on December 15 for emergency medical treatment.
In an official statement, Singapore ministry of foreign affairs said: “Despite the best efforts of the doctors from SGH and the National Neuroscience Institute, Mr Hadi succumbed to his injuries on 18 December 2025.”
After the news of Hadi's death, Bangladesh was rocked by protests. Demonstrators took to the streets in several cities, calling for justice and the swift arrest of those behind the killing.
On Sunday, Bangladesh Police said that they had no "specific information" on the whereabouts of the prime suspect in Hadi's killing. The response came a day after Hadi’s Inqilab Mancha party gave a 24-hour ultimatum to the interim government on Saturday, demanding “visible progress” in the arrest of those responsible for his killing.
On Saturday, Hadi was buried amid heavy security. He was buried next to the grave of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, close to the Dhaka University mosque.
