A Jamaat leader's audacity

It was a different Victory Day for the anguished students of Chandipur F Huq High School and College and their guardians this year.

They brought out a procession at Sundarganj demanding removal of principal of the school and college Mozammel Huq, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, and laid a siege to the local Union Parishad office as they were deprived of Victory Day celebrations.

Deviating from tradition, the National Flag was not hoisted atop the institution and the principal did not take up any programme to celebrate the Victory Day, Chandipur UP Chairman Khorshedul Alam Pramanik told a press conference on Thursday.

No teacher was available there on the day, he said.

The institutions had celebrated Victory Day in a befitting manner in previous years, he said.

"Being informed, the Sunderganj UNO deployed police to control the situation" the UP chairman said.

On Thursday, some journalists during a visit saw several hundred students of the school and college boycotting annual examinations demanding removal of the principal.

They told newsmen that the programme would continue till their demand is met.

Former headmaster Abdul Khaleque Mia said there is a longstanding disagreement over formation of a managing committee of the institution.

The tenure of last committee expired on April 17, 1999. Since then there is no committee.