Activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, associate student body of the ruling Awami League, renamed a student hall of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology as 'Bangabandhu' Friday afternoon.
Campus sources said BCL activists in the afternoon put up a signboard reading 'Bangabandhu Hall' on the nameplate of Second Student Hall on the campus.
Contacted, SUST BCL leaders, seeking anonymity, said the name the hall was renamed to show respect to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the month of independence.
Rafiqul Islam, former president of SUST teachers' association and loyal to the BNP-Jamaat-backed teachers' front, said the authority to rename a hall lied only with the authorities concerned. 'Such renaming is completely illegal,' he added.
The Second Student Hall provost, Anwarul Islam Dipu, told New Age that renaming the hall without any official decision in this connection was not proper.
Contacted over mobile phone, SUST vice-chancellor Saleh Uddin told New Age Saturday afternoon that he was not aware of the matter as he was out of the campus.
'I am not aware who hung the signboard at the hall. I will discuss the matter with the authorities concerned after returning to the campus. A decision about the matter will be made then,' SUST vice-chancellor said.
The AL-backed government in 1997 had taken a move to name several structures on the campus, but it had to stop the move in the face of movement by the main opposition BNP and its allies.
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