BCL activists foil recruitment test
Comilla University postponed teacher recruitment interviews yesterday after some Chhatra League activists caused chaos at the interview venue over not issuing an interview card to one of their fellows.
University authorities said they did not pick Faisal Arefin, an applicant for the lecturer post at management studies department, for an interview today as he could not meet the minimum requirement for the post.
Faisal is a member of the convening committee of the university unit Bangladesh Chhatra League.
Though student politics is not allowed inside the university, the BCL is the only student organisation which operates on the campus.
Witnesses said the interview for the posts of assistant professor and lecturer at the accounting and information systems department started at the vice chancellor's office at 10:00am.
Around half an hour later, some 20-30 BCL men led by Bahauddin and Bappi Khan, followers of BCL university unit convener Mahmudur Rahman, went to the interview venue.
They forced the jobseekers out of the VC's office and demanded the authorities issue an interview card to Faisal.
As the VC's office was in chaos, the university authorities postponed the interviews for the day.
Some students of business studies department said the minimum qualification for becoming a teacher is a CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average) of 3.70 in each of the BBA and MBA exams. But Faisal achieved 3.67 in BBA.
BCL convener Mahmudur said, “The authorities suddenly raised the minimum qualification for becoming a teacher. As a result, a member of our organisation did not get the interview card. Riled up, members of our organisation caused the chaos.”
Terming the incident unprecedented, Vice Chancellor Prof Ali Ashraf said yesterday's interviews has been postponed due to the untoward incident.
Asked about taking action against the troublemakers, he said the university proctorial body will look into the matter.
Despite repeated attempts, this newspaper could not reach Faisal Arefin over the phone for his comment.
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