Jahangirnagar University unit Chhatra League leaders again thwarted the Urban and Regional Planning Department’s move to hold its 2011-12 academic session’s final semester exam Thursday, second time in the year.
The hindrance was allegedly caused by the Jahangirnagar University unit BCL Vice-President Mahmud Al Zaman Papon of Moulana Bhasani Hall and Press and Publication Secretary Md Mamun Khan of AFM Kamal Uddin Hall.
Sources said Papon and Mamun locked the two collapsible gates of the Urban and Regional Planning (URP) Department around 9:30am Thursday.
URP acting chair Dr Golam Moinuddin informed JU authority of the matter and sought help.
Source said Mahmud Al Zaman Papon, Md Mamun Khan and Nafis Harun Omi, three students of the department under 2011-12 academic session, failed in several courses of their master’s programme.
According to the departmental rules, students having GPA bellow 2.50 will not be able to join the final semester and have to be demoted to the next batch.
But the two BCL leaders wanted to complete their coursework with 2011-12 academic session within the tenure of the ruling Awami League government.
Even, they submitted applications to the department for taking special tests for their master’s first semester, but the department turned down their applications.
URP Department set its 2011-12 academic session’s first semester exam date Thursday and completed all preparations to this end while the BCL leaders stood in the way.
Besides keeping the main entrance of the department under lock and key, Papon and Mamun threatened the examinees at Tarzan point of the univeristy not to go to exam hall.
Dr Golam Moinuddin, acting chair of the department, admitted that it was the second time they failed to hold examination on schedule.
“We have asked the university authority to immediatley take punitive action against those troublemakers,” said the department chair.
However, Papon and Mamun denied the allegations against them.
The two leaders went on to say that the general students locked the gates because they decided not to sit for the exam without us since they loved us very much.
