The much-awaited election to the Jahangirnagar University Central
Student Union slated for January 2 has been postponed due to
‘insufficient security’.
Chief election commissioner professor AKM Shahnawaj in a written
statement on Tuesday said that the authorities took decision to postpone
the JUCSU polls for lack of adequate number of law enforcers following
the announcement of the schedule for the general election.
A group of teachers were, however, holding a series of protest programs
on the campus for removal of the chief election commissioner of JUCSU
polls and stopping the election.
They staged a demonstration on the campus on Tuesday demanding the announcement of the VC panel election.
Under the banner of ‘Teacher-Student-Officer-Employee Unity Forum’, they
took out a procession and marched through the main street on the
campus.
Teachers continued with the strike and sit-in in front of the
administrative building where acting vice-chancellor professor MA Matin
and pro-VC professor Afsar Ahmed were kept confined for the seventh
consecutive days.
Vice-chancellor professor Anwar Hossain is now on leave while pro-VC Afsar Ahmed fell sick on Monday due to food poisoning.
Prof Matin expressed resentment as the teachers had kept confined them
for seven days, although they had postponed the senate polls as per
their demand.
About the latest developments he said, ‘We have sent a letter to the VC
citing teachers’ demand, but he has yet to reply.’ The academic
activities were running as usual, but the administrative activities came
to a halt. (source)