Biography:
Sarjis Alam was born on 2 July 1998 in Atwari Upazila, Panchagarh. He is the son of Aktaruzzaman Saju, a businessman and former member of the Awami League party, and Bakera Begum, a homemaker. He completed his HSC at BAF Shaheen College in Dhaka, and earned both his BSc and MSc in Zoology from the University of Dhaka.
Activism:
Sarjis joined the Bangladesh Chhatra League in 2017 upon his admission to the University of Dhaka. In 2019, he was elected to the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union from the Chhatra League panel. He resigned from the organization in 2022 and also participated in various debate competitions during his academic years.
In 2024, Alam joined the Anti-discrimination Students Movement as a coordinator, opposing quotas in government jobs, which evolved into mass uprising culminating in the ouster of Hasina administration. He along with Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud, Hasnat Abdullah and others gained national recognition in mid-July 2024 when he and several other students from the University of Dhaka were detained by the police as the protests became violent.
In the aftermath, On August 5, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and went on exile. Nahid Islam stated that, their goals weren’t fully met and that the group aimed to “abolish fascist systems forever”. He and his organisation called Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead an interim government.
