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JCD men run rampant at RU over VC panel

55 rooms ransacked; 3 teachers, 10 students injured

ANWAR ALI and ABU KALAM, RAJSHAHI
A section of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) men yesterday went on the rampage at Rajshahi University leaving three teachers and some 10 students injured and the vice chancellor's office badly damaged.
Offices of the proctor and students' advisor at the Administrative Building were also ransacked as police stationed nearby stood by, said a witness.
Besides,the attackers, who allegedly belong to anti-Jamaat-e-
Islami faction of ruling BNP's student wing JCD, also damaged all the 45 rooms at three-storey Deans' Complex and more than 10 rooms at the biochemistry and molecular biology and geology and mining departments at Second Science Building and set fire to a pro-Jamaat teacher's chamber.
Teachers assaulted by the JCD men are Dr Sultan-ul Islam, Prof Chowdhury Sorwar Jahan and Shafiqul Alam. Faruk Ahmed, Mintu, Rafique, Fatik, Sumon and Rabbani are among the injured students.
The rampage began at around
10:00am with some 40 JCD activists of the faction led by former general secretary Aslam Reza storming the administrative building. The VC was not in his office when they ransacked it along with other offices housed in the Administrative Building. He left Rajshahi for Dhaka at around 9:00am.
The rampaging JCD men then launched assault on the Deans' Complex as panic-stricken teachers and students ran helter-skelter to get away, said Sheikh Shahid, a witness to the violence. They FROM PAGE 1
damaged offices of pro-Jamaat deans -- Prof Sadekul Islam (social science), Prof Omar Ali (business), Prof Asma Siddika (law) and proBNP dean Muhammad Shafi (arts faculty). "In 20 minutes they turned the Deans' Complex into a scene of complete devastation," said Shahidul Islam, science faculty research director.
They did not even spare the chamber of the university's lone Professor Emeritus Prof ABM Sobhan.
Besides, the attackers hurled a petrol bomb at the Second Science Building office of Prof Nurul Absar, a pro-Jamaat teacher of Biochemistry department.
A group of teachers and students loyal to Jamaat-Shibir chased the JCD men, who fled the scene blasting crackers.
Prof Dr Sayed Shamsuddin Ahmed, chairman of geology and mining department, meanwhile in a letter to the VC yesterday alleged that 'some unruly students of Biochemistry led by teachers Abdus Salam, Mominul Haque and Ashraful Haque attacked the geology department and injured Prof Sultan-ul Islam.
Biochemistry department chairman Dr Rezaul Karim told the newsmen that the attack on geology department resulted from a misunderstanding.
A number of senior teachers and student leaders described the incident as pre-planned and unprecedented in the history of RU. They said it had its origin in a feud between pro-Jamaat VC Prof Faisul Islam Faruki and BNP-backed proVC Prof KAM Shahadat Hossain Mondol over the post of VC.
They said the attack was carried out responding to nominations of three pro-Jamaat teachers for the VC panel ignoring Prof Mondol.
The VC headed-RU administrative council, which is dominated by Jamaat-leaning teachers, blamed the attack on pro VC Mondol and demanded his immediate removal.
Pro VC Prof Mondol denied the allegations and said, "I accepted the party's decision of excluding me from the VC panel. Can a teacher like me plan such acts of violence?"
The RU JCD faction leaders, meanwhile, said they resorted to violence to protest what they said was the authorities' 'depriving their candidates of different quotas for this year's university admission'.
Former RU JCD assistant office secretary Sohel Rana said, "Our attack was meant to protect our rights. If meritorious students do not get chances, what is the use of the university".
Former JCD organising secretary Masudur Rahman Rana told that the attackers were loyal to proVC and most of them hailed from his [pro-VC] home district Rangpur.
A huge contingent of police was deployed in the campus to avert further escalation. Police, however, did not yet arrest anyone.
Sources said RU registrar Abdus Salam yesterday filed a case with Motihar Police Station in this connection.
Teachers and students of biochemistry and molecular biology department will abstain from classes to protest the attack on Nurul Absar.