The blockade imposed by a faction of the Chittagong University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League, which failed to secure an expected number of posts in the newly formed full-fledged committee of the unit, continued for second consecutive day on Tuesday.
No shuttle train, teachers’ bus and staff bus ran on the university routes on Tuesday, said an university official.
Chattogram railway station manager Ratan Kumar Chowdhury told that the shuttle train services at Chittagong University route suspended for indefinite period.
‘No shuttle train left Chattogram station for the university on Tuesday,’ he said.
The blockade forced the university authorities to suspend classes and examinations scheduled on Tuesday, CU proctor Rabiul Hasan Bhuiyan told.
‘We had a discussion with them on Monday night. We tried to make them understand that it was not the matter of the university authorities. It was BCL’s decision and the university authorities had nothing to do with it. They assured us to withdraw the blockade and opened the gate. But they barred university buses to run on Tuesday,’ the proctor said.
BCL activist Delwar Hossain, who led the blockade at the university, told New Age that the blockade would continue till their demand fulfilled by the central BCL.
The BCL faction is the followers of Jahedul Awal, who has secured a vice-president post in the full-fledged committee. Jahedul was an accused in BCL leader Tapos Sarkar murder case.
Jahedul was now an employee of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, said BCL sources.
The committee’s another vice-president Pradip Chakraborty Durjoy was also an accused in the Tapos Sarkar murder case.
In addition, the committee’s joint secretary Raju Munsi was an accused in the case over the CRB double murder, committed on June 24, 2013, during clashes between two BCL and Juba League groups over controlling a railway tender.
Raju Munsi recently threatened a teacher of the university for barring a student who was copying during an examination.
The university authorities on Monday postponed the final examinations of three departments and one institute — department of international relations, department of finance and department of physical education and sports science and the Institute of Marine Sciences — scheduled for Monday due to the blockade by the BCL faction, said the university’s acting controller of examinations Chowdhury Amir Mohammad Musa.
‘Teachers, students couldn’t come to university as there is no teacher’s bus, train run on Tuesday. Examinations, classes scheduled on Tuesday are suspended also,’ he said.
The central BCL on early Monday announced a 375-member full-fledged committee of the CU unit, after they had constituted a two-member ad hoc committee with Rezaul Hoque Rubel, a 2006-07 session student, as its president and Iqbal Hossen Tipu, a 2010-11 session student, as the general secretary on July 14, 2019 for a year.
