Nominate VC after senate election
Demands JU Shammilito Shikkhak Parishad
Jahangirnagar University teachers under the banner, “Shammilito Shikkhak Parishad”, yesterday demanded that the present vice chancellor postpones the special senate meeting he called for July 20 to nominate three persons for the VC post.
Different posts of the senate were being held by unelected people. The senate members must be first elected and selected so that it can then nominate the persons for the VC post, they said.
The parishad's Convener Prof MA Motin, at a press conference in the social science building, said as per the Jahangirnagar University Act, 1973, the chancellor selects the VC from the trio the senate nominates.
VC Prof Anwar Hossain should stick to the act while running the university, he said.
Meanwhile, cultural activists of Jahangirnagar University under the “Sangskritik Jote” banner demanded that Bangladesh Chhatra League men who attacked them on April 28 be brought to book.
In the attack, some 15 activists, protesting vandalism by BCL at a demonstration by teachers the day before, were left injured.
The teachers, under the banner of Shikkhak Samaj, had been demanding the resignation of the then vice chancellor, Prof Shariff Enamul Kabir, since the murder of Zubair Ahmed, an English department student, on January 9.
The activists, at a human chain in front of JU's administrative building, also blamed the probe body, formed on June 11 to investigate into the attack, of not submitting their report within the 15 days stipulated by the JU authorities.
Prof Sufi Mostafijur Rahman, leading the new body, said the investigation period was extended for another 15 days, with approval from VC Prof Anwar Hossain.
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