Three senate candidates of Dhaka University who filed a writ questioning a special senate meeting are set to challenge the legality of appointment of newly elected Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique.
Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique has been reappointed as the vice-chancellor of Dhaka University for the next four years.
The education ministry issued a circular in this regard Sunday.
Pro VC Prof Nasrin Ahmed said: “Abdul Hamid, president of the country and chancellor of the university, reassigned Arefin Siddique on Saturday night.”
Earlier on Saturday, Dhaka University senate members formed a three-member VC election panel, comprising of VC AAMS Arefin Siddique, Pro VC (education) Nasrin Ahmed and Pro VC (admin) Shahid Akthar Hossain.
Some 36 members among 50 were present at the special session of the senate amid protest and boycott by BNP backed White panel senate members.
Belayet Hossain, a lawyer of the petitioners, said they would challenge the appointment today, lodging a supplementary affidavit with the High Court.
He said the HC Bench of Justice Md. Habibul Gani and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar would hear the matter today.
DU former Pro VC AFM Yusuf Haider, Prof Abdul Aziz and Mahfuz Ullah, the secretary general of Center for Sustainable Development, on Thursday lodged the writ disputing the Dhaka University authority’s decision to hold a ‘special senate meeting.’
Jashim Uddin Sarker, a lawyer of the petitioners and central law secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami, said 55 posts of senate members, out of 105, were vacant. While the election for nominating 25 senate members from the registered DU graduates is set to be held on September 14, 19 and 28, holding a special senate meeting was against the Dhaka University Order, 1973, he added.
