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VC Panel Election

Court clears JU for polls today

Agitating teachers to continue hunger strike, sit-in

Staff Correspondent
The High Court has directed the government to take steps to ensure a peaceful and fair vice-chancellor panel election of Jahangirnagar University. The election is to be held today amid opposition from a section of teachers.
In response to a writ petition yesterday,
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the court ordered the home secretary, inspector general of police and officer-in-charge of Ashulia Police Station to deploy adequate law enforcers al the university, which is going to the VC panel polls after eight years.
The teachers, who have been laying siege to the administrative office over the last several days to press for the election of senate members beforehand, withdraw the programme from today as a show of respect to the judiciary.
They, however, will continue a hunger strike and sit-in, said Prof MA Malin, convener of Sarnmilito Shikkhak Parishad, which has initiated the agitation.
Apart from laying siege to the office, the Parishad yesterday observed a hunger strike and sit-in on the campus, reports our JU correspondent.
On July 2, a senate meet-
ing with VC Prof Anwar Hossain in the chair decided to hold the election today to nominate a panel of three.
The Jahangirnagar University Act, 1973, says, "The Vice-Chancellor shall be appointed by the Chancellor for a period of four years from a panel of three persons to be nominated by the Senate on such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Chancellor, and shall be eligible for reappointment for a further period of four years."
Yesterday morning, the HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar came up with the order following the petition of Prof Abul Khayer, a senate member and voter of the VC panel election.
Prof Khair, also vice-president of JU Teachers Association, prayed to the court for directives upon
government officials to take measures ensuring that the election was held in a peaceful and fair manner.
During the hearing, his counsel Shahdeen Malik told the court that the petitioner feared obstruction in casting his vote as a group of teachers was staging a sit-in at the administrative building, which is the election venue.
Meanwhile, Prof Prithila Najnin of the Bangla department, who is also a JU senate member, Prof Mujibur Rahman of statistics and Prof Fazlul Karim Palwari of IIT joined the hunger strike around 10:30am yesterday.
A leader of the agitating teachers, Prof Nasim Aktar Hossain, said it is not a proper democratic practice that senate members would remain in their posts despite expiry of their terms.
The teachers maintain that senate members must be elected first and the
newly elected ones will nominate the VC panel.
They also demand the election of deans, members of the syndicate and academic council, student representatives to Jahangirnagar University Central Students Union (Jucsu) and registered graduate representatives to the senate.
Terming their demand “illogical”, Prof Anwar Hossain on Wednesday night urged the teachers to call off their agitation and return to the classroom. I Ie said the special senate meeting to nominate a VC panel would be held on time.
The last time a VC panel election was held at Jahangirnagar University was in 2004. The panel led by Khondokar Mustahidur Rahman of the economics department won the race and he was appointed vice-chancellor.