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The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall astatine the Dhaka University has been renamed successful representation of Sharif Osman Hadi, a salient younker person who was portion of the July Uprising that toppled Sheikh Hasina's authorities successful Bangladesh past year, section media said Sunday (December 21, 2025).
Hadi died connected Thursday (December 18), six days aft helium was changeable successful the caput successful the capital.
The hallway union, a students' body, erased the nameplate astatine the main gross and replaced it with a caller one, 'Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi Hall' connected Saturday (December 20), the Dhaka Tribune said.
He was changeable successful the caput connected December 12 by masked gunmen astatine an predetermination run successful cardinal Dhaka’s Bijoynagar area. He died portion undergoing attraction successful Singapore connected Thursday.
His decease triggered attacks and vandalism crossed Bangladesh.
Also, respective students are coating implicit the graffiti mural of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman that was connected the hall's main building.
Musaddiq Ibn Ali Mohammad, Dhaka University Central Students’ Union's (DUCSU) caput for taste affairs, announced that the nameplate would beryllium removed utilizing a crane astatine 9:30 p.m. connected Saturday (December 20), the study said.
On-site reflection showed that enactment to erase the hall's sanction began astir 9:45 p.m.. Later, astatine 11:15 p.m., enactment began to overgarment implicit the graffiti.
When asked whether the hallway assembly leaders had obtained support to erase the graffiti and name, Hall Council V-P Muslimur Rahman told the media: "The students demanded that this beryllium removed. So, we are removing it based connected the students' verdict."
