Teachers of Chittagong University (CU) and Bangladesh College University Teachers Association has called upon BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to immediately withdraw the indefinite nationwide blockade programme.
In the name of political movement, the blockade and strikes enforced by BNP have generated widespread anarchy and bomb attacks killing innocent people, said teachers under the banner of Chittagong University Teachers’ Association (CUTA).
They demanded that the government take stern action against the perpetrators of the subversive activities and compensate the victims, reports our CU correspondent.
Around 120 teachers under the banner of CUTA formed a human chain around 4:30pm on the Chittagong Press Club premises protesting the ongoing violence.CU Vice-Chancellor Professor Anwarul Azim Arif and Pro-VC Professor Dr Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury participated at the human chain.
University Science and Technology in Chittagong (USTC), Hazi Mohammad Mohsin College, Chittagong unit of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee and Peshajibi Somonnoy Parishad expressed solidarity with CUTA.
The participants at the human chain said the subversive activities carried out by the BNP-Jamaat alliance was “an ill strategy for grabbing power” rather a political programme.
CU’s former VC Professor Abdul Mannan said: “BNP is carrying out terrorism by burning innocent people. The teachers could not remain silent seeing such situation. Please stop it, save the people, save the future.”
