The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

The 'blue panel' teachers, loyal to the Awami League, of Dhaka University (DU) Sunday demanded immediate removal of the university's pro-vice-chancellor and the treasurer for their irregularities in the recruitment of DU teachers.

They alleged the treasurer despite being the election commissioner became biased to the candidates of the 'white panel', belonging to the BNP-Jamaat, in the recent dean election.

"We want the announcement of dates of election of all components of the Senate immediately by removing the pro-VC and the treasurer, recruited during the government of the four-party alliance, for their ill-attempts and irregularities galore at the university", DU Social Sciences Faculty Dean and blue panel Convener Harun-or-Rashid said at a press conference at the university.

Rashid claimed in his written statement that the treasurer and the pro-VC made frantic efforts to realise support for the candidates of the white panel.

"The proctor and the assistant proctors are taking handsome money every month without discharging their duties on the days of examinations", Rashid alleged, seeking reshuffle in the proctorial body of the university.

The 'blue panel' also brought a wide range of allegations of politicisation and irregularities against the present University Administration, recruited during the regime of the four-party coalition, in appointing teachers and officials and even in allotting residences at the University.

When contacted, DU Treasurer Syed Abul Kalam Azad termed the statement of the 'blue panel' teachers politically motivated and said no one would believe that the dean election was manipulated, as the university teachers, the conscience of the nation, cast their votes there.

DU Teachers' Association (DUTA) General Secretary Md Anwar Hossin, DUTA former President AAMS Arefin Siddiqui, former General Secretary Akhteruzzaman, 'blue panel' Joint Convener Wahiduzzaman Chan and Muhammad Samad, among others, attended the press conference.