Demand for RU VC's Removal
Pro-BNP-Jamaat teachers, staff lock admin building
Over 100 pro-BNP-Jamaat teachers and staff of Rajshahi University under the banner “Conscious Teachers-Officers-Employees†locked the administrative building and staged a sit-in before it yesterday demanding Vice-Chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan's removal.
They protested his alleged irregularities and demanded that a new VC be elected through the senate, said witnesses. Afterwards they submitted a memorandum to the VC to press home their demands.
Meanwhile, some pro-Awami League teachers met the VC, alleging that the protesters were trying to create anarchy to disrupt the war crimes trial.
Prof Abdus Sobhan urged them to stay united to face off the protesters.
Speakers at the sit-in alleged that the VC illegally recruited some 301 teachers against 186 advertised posts in the last four years.
This is a violation of the Rajshahi University Act 1973 and of the 2011 embargo placed by University Grants Commission over recruitments and caused RU a budget deficit of around TK 50 crore.
They said the VC politicised the upcoming December 9 convocation by keeping pro-AL teachers in the preparation committees.
Four students were killed by pro-AL student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League activists as the VC failed to ensure students' security, they said.
The VC also failed to call a single senate session since taking office in 2009, they said, threatening to go for tougher agitations if their demands were not met soon.
Prof Afrauzzaman, Prof Azhar Uddin, Prof Rafiqul Islam, Prof Mamunul Keramot, M Abdur Razzak, Abul Hashem, Abdul Hai Talukdar and Anamul Haque addressed the programme.
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