JU VC rejects demand for his resignation
Just a day after some agitating teachers again announced a five-day protest programme, Jahangirnagar University Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr Shariff Enamul Kabir yesterday said he would not resign.
“I will resign immediately if my beloved students want, though I believe they do not. But I can not resign before the undemocratic and irrational demand of 30 or 40 teachers,” he said at a press conference at Zahir Raihan Auditorium in JU.
The agitating teachers, under the banner “Shikkhak Samaj”, are demanding the VC's resignation allegedly for his irregularities in appointing teachers and not declaring the election for the post of the VC since February.
Prof Kabir, appointed after the government took office, strongly criticised the teachers, saying that “their activities are harmful for the progress of the university”.
They are after a special agenda to create chaos in JU “but that agenda would not be successful,” he said, describing some of the development activities he took in the last three years.
He, however, urged the agitating teachers to come for discussions on their demands.
Prof Nasim Akhter Hossain, spokesperson for Shikkhak Samaj, denied holding discussions with the VC.
“We demand his resignation as he broke his earlier promises. We will continue our agitation until he resigns,” she said.
Prof Kabir said he will declare the elections of all the bodies, including the election for the VC post, in due time.
On the formation of a judicial probe committee to investigate the murder of Zubair, he said he could not do this as the case was now proceeding under police supervision.
Zubair Ahmed, a fourth year student of English department, succumbed to his injuries after being attacked by a group of Bangladesh Chhatra League activists on January 9.
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