On 18 February 2025, during a campaign by the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatradal (JCD), on the campus of the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, a group of students began protesting against them as they wanted a "politics-free campus." This would end up becoming a clash between the general students (under the banners of Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir and the Students Against Discrimination) and JCD members, alongside some regular BNP members.
The clash would result in at least fifty people being injured and five detained, the clash would lead to the interim government deploying two platoons of the Border Guard Bangladesh, alongside Navy personnel, soldiers of the Army, and RAB personnel, to the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology to prevent further clashes.