DOT Desk: The Jashore University of Science and Technology authorities have banned political organisations and their activities involving both teachers and students on the campus, reports The New Age.
The decision was made in a meeting between the university administration, local members of parliament and representatives of different social and political organisations at the conference room of the university’s administrative building on Thursday evening.
The meeting was arranged against a backdrop of stalemate on the campus over teachers’ work abstention and students’ protests following humiliation and assault on JUST Teachers’ Association president Iqbal Kabir Jahid.
Protesting against the attack, teachers’ association went on indefinite work abstention more than two weeks ago.
‘No political activities, either by the teachers or by the students, will be accepted on the campus. We, however, will allow cultural programmes and games and sports on the campus,’ JUST vice-chancellor Anwar Hossain told New Age after the meeting.
JUSTTA general secretary Mohammad Nazmul Hasan told New Age that teachers morally decided to join academic activities on today.
He also said that teachers had been observing work abstention since January 12 in protest against humiliation of JUSTTA president by a former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League and attack on a teachers’ human chain programme by the student body.
Politics was prohibited on the campus since its inception on January 25, 2007.
However, Awami League’s student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League started its activities on the campus violating rules and regulations only after two years.
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