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Classes may resume today

Staff Correspondent
Classes at Buet are likely to resume today as the agitating teachers and students hinted they might go back to classes trusting the assurances of the education minister of removing the pro-VC and withdrawing cases against the agitators.
The agitators, however, were sticking by their previous demand for removal of Vice-Chancellor Prof SM Nazrul Islam.
"We want to resume classes today considering the future of the students, but we would not shift from our demand for removal of the VC," Prof Ashraful Islam, general secretary of Buet Teachers Association (BTA), told The Daily Star.
The teachers of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) are ready to resume the classes, but they want Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid to honour his pledges without further delay, he added.
In a meeting with the BTA on Monday, Nahid had pledged to remove Pro-VC Prof Habibur Rahman and withdraw two cases filed against teachersandstudents.
Following the minister's assurances, the agitators suspended their demonstration on Friday.
Meanwhile, talking to The Daily Star yesterday, the Buet VC urged the teachers and students to resume classes at the earliest opportunity to avoid session jam at the institution.
The education minister yesterday reiterated that the government would take necessary measures soon to resolve the ongoing crisis at Buet.
Nahid was talking to a group of leaders of progovernment student body Bangladesh Chhatra League
(BCL) at his Minto Road residence.
Led by BCL President HM Badiuzzaman Sohag, the 14-member team called on the minister at 11:00am and discussed the overall situation at Buet.
During the meeting, the minister urged the BCL delegation to help resume classes at Buet peacefully, said Aminul Haque Palash, vice-president of Buet unit BCL.
"We have requested the minister not to bow to any unfair demand," he added.
On April 7, the BTA had launched an agitation raising 16 allegations of corruption and irregularities against the VC and the pro-VC.
After around a month, they suspended their agitation temporarily on assurances from the prime minister about meeting their demands.
But as there was no progress on the issue, the teachers announced nonstop work abstention from
July 14. The students and staff of the university also joined them.
On September 2, the Buet authorities filed two cases against some teachers and students with Shahbagh Police Station on charges of ransacking the offices of the VC and pro-VC and stealing Tk31akh.
PROF KABIR RESIGNS
Prof Lutful Kabir yesterday submitted his resignation letter to the registrar of Buet.
“I worked with this administration [of Buet]. All the activities of the VC are unfair. On principle, it is not possible for me to continue my duties," he told The Daily Star last night.
He cited "personal reasons” forhisresignation.
The authorities on August 13 had suspended Kabir from his post of director of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT).
An accused in the case against teachers, Prof Kabir said, "As a Buet teacher, it is