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Row Over Appointment

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14 February 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

RU Correspondent

Pro-Awami League officials and employees of Rajshahi University (RU) yesterday assaulted Deputy Registrar Gyanendra Narayan Roy and Assistant Registrar Zakirul Islam and forced them to leave their offices as they appointed a fourth class employee at steward section under 'political consideration'. Campus sources said Gyanendra Narayan Roy and Zakirul Islam, chief and deputy chief of the university steward section, appointed Jamal Uddin, reportedly a BNP supporter, at the section on verbal order of Pro-Vice chancellor Prof Mamnunul Keramat on Tuesday. As the news spread on the campus yesterday, around one hundred officers and employees, led by pro-AL Officers and Employees Association General Secretary Ayub Ali and member Rabbel Hossain, went to the steward section, assaulted the two officials and forced them to leave their office rooms. They also locked the rooms and cut off telephone and power connections. The agitating staff later staged a demonstration in front of the pro-VC's office and gave him a 24 hours' deadline to cancel the appointment of Jamal Uddin. Otherwise, they threatened to launch a tougher movement. They also asked the pro-VC to stop fresh recruitment and refrain himself from taking important decisions relating to the university. At a press conference on the campus, the agitating officers and employees alleged that the pro-VC has secretly taken an initiative to recruit some teachers, officers and employees under political consideration. They demanded his resignation and urged the government to immediately appoint a full-fledged vice chancellor at the university.