Editorial
Lingering BUET crisis
We reiterate our demand for VC's resignation
The standoff between the VC and the agitating teachers has gone on for too long, something that is not acceptable for any reputed institute, even less for an institution of longstanding like the BUET.
We note with satisfaction that the teachers have put off their plans to resign en masse, till 30 July only though. We feel that it was perhaps an erroneous position for the teachers to have taken in the first place to issue an ultimatum when seeking a solution through dialogue. Resignation is a handy tool which should be used as a last resort only; and the option is always there to be exercised without expressing it in a dialogue for a problem resolution, ab initio. And that was perhaps a reason why the education minister was so held back on the matter.
This latest statement of the teachers is, we feel, a shifting of stance and indeed softening of position, and the trust in the government they have expressed should not be seen as a capitulation but as offering both time and space for a resolution. And this must be judiciously used by the authorities, including the education minister, to break the impasse.
However, in this regard we once again question the justification of the VC continuing in his position. The stand of the agitating teachers has been compelled, according to them, by the VC's unlawful and opaque activities, which can only be proved or disproved through an impartial inquiry. And an inquiry that must to go into allegations against the head of an institute cannot be fully transparent with the head continuing to be in his position. And for a VC who has lost the trust and confidence of more than fifty percent of his colleagues loses all moral grounds to hold on to his post. The best thing for him, as we have said in the past, is to go.
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