Student strike at Ctg vet university continues

13 December 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Ctg

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and General Students Parishad continued class boycott at Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) for the second day yesterday. They enforced indefinite class boycott on Saturday demanding immediate removal of Vice-Chancellor Dr Nitish Chandra Debnath for his alleged involvement in corruption and on some other demands. Leaders and activists of BCL and the parishad took out a procession and then held a rally on the campus yesterday morning. Addressing the rally, parishad convener Kamol Kanti Majumder accused the VC of indulging in corruption and nepotism in appointing teachers and employees and barring BCL from holding political programmes on campus. “We have submitted a memorandum to President Zillur Rahman, also the chancellor of the university, through the district administration and sent copies of it to the education minister, fisheries and livestock minister and Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) mayor demanding resignation of the vice-chancellor," Kamol said. He also told the rally that Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury expressed solidarity with their demands. They also pressed for reducing admission fees, appointing first class holders as teachers for the university, building a shaheed minar on the campus, naming the male hall after Master Da Surya Sen and the female hall after Pritilata Waddedar, increasing internship allowance, introducing re-examination system, building a dormitory for the interns, publishing the results within 15 days after examinations and putting an end to corruption and nepotism. When contacted, VC Nitish Chandra Debnath said, “They started class boycott without coming to me with any of their problems they now demand to solve."