DU turns into a place for one-party thinking: Fakhrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday claimed that Dhaka University has turned into a place for ‘one-party thinking’.
Addressing a panel introducing function, Fakhrul, a former DU student, said Dhaka University was known as a place for freethinking and was a renowned centre of all democratic movements of the country.
Pro-BNP panel of Jatiyatabadi Parishad vying for 25 registered graduates’ representative election 2017 at Dhaka University Senate was introduced by Dhaka University White group teachers’ convenor Akhtar Hossain Khan at National Press Club.
The election to 25 registered graduates representatives at Dhaka University Senate would be held in phases. Elections at centers outside Dhaka would be held on January 6 and January 13 while centers in Dhaka University on January 20.
Convenor of the election conducting committee for Jatiyatabadi Parishad, Abdullah Al Noman, also BNP vice-chairman, read out seven-point agenda to be implemented if the Parishad nominated graduates win the election. 
Those include reestablishing image and dignity of Dhaka University, Senate not to be confined to approving budgets and electing vice-chancellor’s panel, establishing merit as only yardstick for appointing teachers, ensuring coexistence of all students on the campus irrespective of party and opinion and taking arrangements for regular holding of Dhaka University Central Students Union election. 
The BNP secretary general lamented that no protests were raised from Dhaka University when the country’s independence, sovereignty and interests became at stake.
No voice was raised from the university when students are killed, become victims of injustice and the country’s all achievements were being ruined, Fakhrul said, recalling the glorious role of Dhaka University during language movement in 1952 and mass movement in 1969.
He said the election of registered graduates representatives was going to be held at a time when a disgraceful chapter was being created in the political history of the country. 
The BNP secretary general expressed the hope that Dhaka University would again emerge as the centre for all democratic movements and play a role for establishing democracy in the country.
Turning to recent gazette notification of disciplinary rules for lower court judges, Fakhrul said again independence of the judiciary went into the ‘grip of administration’.
In no way it (judiciary) could be freed, he said, adding that the Chief Justice (SK Sinha) had to lose post and leave the country to free the judiciary. 

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