Ctg Correspondent
After the aborted ‘oust VC movement’ the potential aspirants of the Vice-Chancellor’s office here at Chittagong University have reportedly launched underground missions for attaining the sympathy of the ruling party big shots in Dhaka.
It is learnt that more than half a dozen senior teachers of the university mostly from the progressive section of the teachers with proven loyalty to the Awami League politics are on the race.
An incumbent Vice-Chancellor of a private university and former Professor of Sociology at the university is also on the list of the fit candidates.
Vice-Chancellor of Premier University and former Professor of Sociology at the university Dr. Anupam Sen, Professor of Islamic History and Culture and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the university Dr. Abu Yusuf, Professor of Economics Dr. Moinul Islam, Professor of Management Studies Mohammad Anwarul Azim Arif, Member of the University Grants Commission and Professor of Political Science Dr. Mohammad Abdul Hakim, Dean of the Social Science Faculty and Professor of Sociology Dr. Gazi Salahuddin and Professor of Bio-Chemistry and Micro Biology Dr. Mohammad Alauddin are among the contenders.
The contenders are frequently visiting the senior leaders of the ruling party, specially those who have better image and relation with the Prime Minister and the party chief Sheikh Hasina. Party lobbyists are reportedly trying hard to push their respective candidates. Though none was yet pledged the VC office of the university.
Sources said that though some of the contenders had relatively better chances of winning the Prime Minister’s nod for taking over the VC office, the wilful instigation of the ‘oust VC movement’ by the Awami League’s student wing at the university on January 16 virtually took many of them out of the fit list.
The Prime Minister and the Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina reportedly felt extremely embarrassed out of the siege enforced by the party’s student wing, mainly under the patronage of the over enthusiastic contenders of the VC office, just after taking her oath as head of the government.
The ‘oust VC movement’ was aborted when the Prime Minister ordered the central leaders of the party’s student wing to stand against the agitation and ensure congenial academic atmosphere on the campus. She apparently took ‘go slow’ policy in removing the Vice-Chancellor.
In the meantime, the incumbent Vice-Chancellor Professor M Badiul Alam has apparently become cornered following non-cooperation from majority of the bodies involved in running the university.
“The VC is staying away from his office since January 17 and doing some of the essential file work from his residence,” an official of the VC office told this Correspondent requesting anonymity.
Professor M Badiul Alam does not come out of his residence reportedly fearing physical assault by the quarters that did not like him to be at the VC office.
Courtesy: nation.ittefaq.com
