Demand for Ruet VC's Removal
Mayor fails to break deadlock
The prevailing deadlock concerning removal of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) vice chancellor continued on the campus as Rajshahi city mayor's efforts yesterday to end the feud were ineffective.
All academic and administrative activities at the university were at a standstill as a section of teachers, students and university staff continued their protest programme under the banner “Progatisheel Chhatra-Shikkhak-Karmakarta-Karmachari Oikkya Parishad" demanding removal of Ruet Vice Chancellor Sirajul Karim Chowdhury.
They have been staging different protest programmes demanding the VC's removal since November 16.
Rajshahi City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton yesterday held a meeting with parishad members where he requested them to stop their movement while he talks to government high-ups regarding their demand, said sources.
But representatives of the parishad refused the mayor's proposal and demanded immediate removal of the VC.
Meanwhile, the agitators yesterday declared Abul Bashar, the Ruet registrar, and Nazimuddin Ahmed, finance committee member and the acting comptroller, unwanted on the campus, said sources.
Harun-ar-Rashid, convenor of Ruet unit BCL and member secretary of the parishad, said the registrar and comptroller were declared unwanted as they did not give salaries of teachers and staff for the month of November.
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