Dhaka, Jan. 27 -- Jamaat-e-Islami has expelled a party leader from Barguna after he described the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) as a "drug den and brothel".

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Mohibullah Harun, the chief of the party's district committee, said Shamim Ahsan had been removed from his post as assistant secretary general of the district unit, that his party membership had been suspended and that he had been expelled from the organisation.

Ahsan, also the headmaster of a secondary school in Pathaghata Upazila, made the remarks on Saturday night at an election rally, prompting protests in Dhaka and other parts of the country.

The district Jamaat unit said the "reckless" remarks about Dhaka University, widely...