JU senate meeting postponed amid teachers' protest

The annual senate meeting of Jahangirnagar University (JU) has been postponed in the face of protest from some JU teachers.
The university budget was to be placed in the senate meeting, which was to be held yesterday.
Some teachers under the banner of Jahangirnagar University Teachers Association (Juta) laid siege to the registrar building, where the senate meeting is held, from noon till 5:00pm yesterday.
The association earlier said no administration related activities, including senate, syndicate and academic council meetings, can be held under Vice Chancellor Prof Anwar Hossain.
Teachers led by Prof Ajit Kumar Majumdar, president of Juta, said they would call off their protest programmes only if Prof Anwar resigns.
Due to the teachers' protest, a total of three syndicate meetings have been cancelled recently. The teachers have been protesting the university authorities' decision of not suspending the studentship of a leader of JU unit Bangladesh Chhatra League for allegedly assaulting a JU teacher.
The teachers had been observing work abstention since April 27 and carried out several protest programmes demanding resignation of the VC for not suspending the BCL leader. They, however, returned to work on Thursday.
The Juta had earlier declared Prof Anwar Hossain persona non grata on the campus.
On April 6, Rajib Ahmed Rasel, general secretary of BCL, JU unit allegedly assaulted Nurul Haque, a lecturer of economics department and a syndicate member, during hartal hours.
The university authorities, in a syndicate meeting, only gave Rajib a warning of three-month long suspension if he creates further anarchy on the campus.