Students demonstrate for Ducsu election
The ruling Awami League-backed “Blue Panel” swept the senate elections of Dhaka University yesterday.
Meanwhile, around 40 students wearing black masks demonstrated in front of the Senate building during the election around 11:30am, demanding holding of Dhaka University Central Students Union (Ducsu) election.
Different left-leaning student organisations joining the demonstration said the Senate election is being held regularly.
The students are being deprived of their due rights because of the dysfunctional Ducsu and absence of student representatives in Senate, they alleged. During the demonstration, a group of teachers pushed them off the Senate building.
Mir Asadul Haque, one of the demonstrators, said as per the relevant law, there should have elected students' representative in senate. “That's why we are demanding Duscu election and our demand is logical.”
He alleged that some teachers attacked the demonstrators without any provocation. Denying the allegations against the teachers, DU Proctor Prof AM Amzad Ali said seven to eight students were demonstrating at the Senate building when teachers tried to calm them.
At that time, the students were requested to demonstrate outside the building premises, he said.
During the conversation, few students even rebuked the teachers, said the proctor.
SENATE POLLS
Aspirants from the “Blue Panel” won 33 seats of teachers' representatives out of 35 posts while BNP-backed “White Panel” got only two posts.
Around 1,590 teachers cast their votes to elect the teachers' representative in the election held between 9:00am and 1:00pm at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban.
Winners from the Blue Panel are Nazma Shaheen, Rahmat Ullah, Abu Md Delwar Hossain, AJM Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan, Abul Mansur Ahmed, AKM Jamal Uddin, Ishtiaque Moin Syed, SM Abdur Rahman, Kajal Krishno Banrjee, Towhida Rashid, Delwar Hossain, Baitullah Kaderi, Mubina Khondkar, Aftab Ali Shaikh, Aftab Uddin, Abdul Aziz, Abdus Samad, Ziaur Rahman, Fazlur Rahman, Mazibur Rhaman, Ali Akkas, Sabita Rizwana Rahman, Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam, Supriya Shaha, Subrata Kumar Aditya, Hasibur Rashid, SM Rezaul Karim, Chandra Nath Podder, Dr Kazi Hanium Maria, Jannatul Ferdous, Papia Haque, Nusrat Jahan and Lafifa Jamal.
Meanwhile, ABM Obaidul Islam and Lutfur Rahman won the two posts from the White Panel.
DU Treasurer Prof Kamal Uddin, also the election commissioner, announced the results in the afternoon. However, left-leaning “Pink Panel” did not participate in this year's senate polls.
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