Rangpur Carmichael College
Agitation on to stop principal's transfer
Students of Carmichael College yesterday vandalised a laboratory, boycotted classes and put the administrative building under lock and key.
They also brought out a procession and staged demonstration, demanding withdrawal of the transfer of college principal Dr. Depokendra Nath Das.
Campus sources said, the students paraded the campus in the morning and agitated in front of the administrative building in favour of their demand.
During the agitation, they vandalised the Mathematics department's laboratory and put the classrooms, office of the principal and administrative building under lock and key.
Meanwhile, all the classes and examinations at the college were suspended while most of the residential students left their hostels yesterday.
Students said, Chhatra League, Chhatra Samaj, Chhatra Union college units along with general students jointly organised yesterday's agitation.
The speakers at a rally in front of the administrative building threatened to continue the indefinite strike till their demand for withdrawal of the transfer order was fulfilled.
They alleged that a few teachers, backed by a group of anti-liberation force, in collusion with some corrupt officials of the education ministry, transferred the principal to Government Azizul Haque College, Bogra to their college to create campus unrest. It was done in a bid to strengthen the hold of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student's wing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, at Carmichael College, they added.
They also vowed to foil the joining of Professor Shah Md. Moksed Ali of Azizul Haque College at any cost.
They said Dr. Depokendra Nath Das, after his takeover as the principal of the college, had improved the academic atmosphere significantly.
The students of the college enforced the strike from July 4 opposing the move for his transfer to Government Azizul Haque College, Bogra.
Both the teachers were supposed to join their respective colleges within May 20. However, in the wake of protests, the ministry retreated from its decision and stayed the order.
College sources said Dr. Depokendra was again transferred to the same college on Tuesday and asked to join by July 08.
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