Academic activities at BM College resume
Mayor Hiron unlocks main gate
Academic activities at Barisal Government Brojo Mohan College (BM) resumed after BCC Mayor Shawkat Hossain Hiron unlocked the main entrance to the college yesterday morning.
The BCL faction that locked the college on January 29 handed over keys to the BCC mayor on his arrival on the campus along with acting Principal Prof Kazi Nazrul Islam at around 8:00am.
Academic activities at the college came to a halt on the day as a faction of the college unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) led by its joint conveners Moin Tushar and Nahid Serniabad locked the college and its administrative section protesting transfer of principal Prof Nani Gopal Das.
The BCL men led by Moin Tushar also assaulted newly appointed principal Prof Shankar Chandra Dutt and forced him out of the campus when he went there on February 12 to take over the charge.
Moin Tushar, however, rejected the accusation and claimed that his men had rescued Shankar instead and arranged for his safe exit from the campus.
Maksudul Alam Masud, joint convener of another faction of the BCL unit, alleged that the outgoing principal Prof Nani Gopal Das and a section of BCL men loyal to him had a role in the incident. They had been involved in corruption and admission trade and so want cancellation of the new appointment to keep their misdeeds from getting exposed.
Nani Gopal refuted this claim and said he had already handed over the charge to the acting principal on February 3.
Meanwhile, newly-appointed principal Prof Shankar Chandra Dutt has been made an OSD on Thursday, two days after he was assaulted by a faction of BCL.
An education ministry order has asked Prof Shankar to join the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (DSHSE) as an officer on special duty (OSD) within February 18.
In the same order, Shankar's predecessor Prof Nani Gopal Das has also been made an OSD at the DSHSE.
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