The Awami League-backed teachers swept over the polls of teachers’ representatives in JU senate.
Awami League teachers’ panel ‘Bangabandhur Adarsha O Muktijuddher Chetonay Biswasi Progotishil Shikkhak Samaj’ bagged 25 out of 33 posts of teachers’ representative of university’s senate, university sources said.
The pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party, left-leaning and a section of pro-Awami League teachers’ combined panel ‘Shammilita Shikkhak Samaj won eight seats in the election while a total of some 476 teachers out of 495 teachers in the university casted their votes in the election held on Sunday, source said.
University sources said the vote casting began around 9am at JU Teachers’ Club and continued till 2pm.
JU registrar Abu Bakr Siddique who was returning officer of the polls declared the results around 11:30pm.