Followers of a local Awami League leader in Bhola’s Char Fashion locked the room of a college principal yesterday, after forcibly being denied a teacher’s position at the institution.
The principal, AKM Shahe Alam of Dularhat Model Degree College, filed a general diary with the Char Fashion police in the evening.
Police and witnesses said some eight youths, instigated by the accused Mostafa Kamal, had stormed the college around 11:30am and locked the principal’s room.
The principal was not present in his room during the incident.
“Mostafa Kamal has been trying to become a teacher with the college’s English department for a long time. We will make a decision after investigating the allegation against him,” OC Abul Bashar of the Char Fashion police station told the Dhaka Tribune over the phone.
The OC said they would visit the college this morning. Currently, there is no vacancy at the college’s English Department. According to sources in the principal’s family, Kamal is affiliated with the ruling party’s student wing, the Bangladesh Chhatra League. Kamal is working as a teacher at another college, but he wants to get appointed at the college which is near his village home.
Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Rezaul Karim said he did not know the accused, Kamal. “When the principal came to me in the afternoon, I advised him to take legal action against the persons responsible for the incident,” he told the Dhaka Tribune.