PCJSS threatens tough movement

A faction of Jana Sanghati Samity's Bandarban unit has threatened to wage a tough movement if the government relocates a medical college and a university in Rangamati to Bandarban before the full implementation of the CHT peace accord.

The Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (Santu Larma faction) issued the threat yesterday at a press conference at its office at Madhyam Para in Bandarban.

 “PCJSS demands all the activities to establish the Rangamati Medical College and the Science and Technology University of the district anywhere in the Chittagong Hill Tracts be postponed until the peace accord is implemented properly,” said Saduram Tripura, chairman of the PCJSS in Bandarban.

The PCJSS faction is against the relocation as “it will only benefit others as Bandarban lacks the required educational institutions to prepare its students for the proposed medical college and the university”, said sources.

At the press conference, the faction also urged the government to appoint highly qualified teachers to the government and non-government schools and colleges in the hill areas.

On Monday, Bandarban Deputy Commissioner Mizanul Haque Chowdhury met several journalists at his office and sought their opinions on the relocation of the institutions.

On Saturday, Section 144 was clamped on Rangamati after Pahari Chhatra Parishad (PCP), backed by the PCJSS, clashed with BCL and  Jubo League during a blockade by the PCP to protest the inauguration of the medical college in Rangamati.