Students lock two RU buildings for 4 hours
Students of 13 departments under three faculties at Rajshahi University demonstrate in front of a locked academic building yesterday demanding cancellation of evening master's course under the faculties. Photo: STAR
Students of different departments under social science, law and business studies faculties at Rajshahi University (RU) yesterday put two academic buildings under lock and key for four hours from 8:00am demanding cancellation of evening master's courses under the faculties. They also started two days' class boycott yesterday as a part of their ongoing agitation on the same demand. Over 1,000 students of 13 departments under the three faculties locked the gates of Rabindra Arts Building and Momtazuddin Building and staged sit-ins in front of the gates for four hours until 2:00pm. They also held a protest rally in front of the administrative building. All classes, examinations and official activities of the 13 departments remained suspended during the protest. The agitating students said they locked the gates of two academic buildings and started class boycott as the university authorities did not pay heed to their demand for cancelling evening master's courses within the 24hour deadline that expired at 7:30am yesterday. Meanwhile, Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Rajshahi University unit yesterday expressed its solidarity with the agitating students. BCL President Awal Kabir Joy and Secretary Majedul Islam Opu met Vice-Chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan at 1:00pm and submitted a memorandum to him demanding cancellation of evening master's course. The vice-chancellor told the BCL leaders that he would take a decision in this regard immediately. Earlier, several hundred BCL men took out a procession on the campus and formed a human chain in front of the university central library to press home the demand for cancelling evening master's courses under three faculties. The students of social science faculty have been agitating since June 2 as the university authorities decided to introduce evening master's courses at eight departments under the faculty. Students of business studies and, law and justice faculties also started agitation from Sunday demanding cancellation of evening LLM and MBA courses under the two faculties.
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