CUTA Strike
Pro BNP teachers planning requisition meeting
Cu Correspondent
Amid an indefinite teachers' strike called by the Chittagong University Teachers Association (CUTA), some teachers aligned with ruling BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami are likely call a requisition meeting of the CUTA soon to declare a counter-programme.The ruling party backed held a meeting at the Vice Chancellor's office on Sunday night and discussed calling a requisition meeting to give a 'befitting reply' to the pro-Awami League teachers who dominate the CUTA. The teachers urged VC Prof AJM Nuruddin Chowdhury to ensure smooth plying of the university shuttle train and teachers' buses and presence of students so that they can take classes and do other academic activities, defying the strike call, meeting sources said. The VC chaired the meeting, also attended by, among others, Pro VC Prof M Shamsuddin, former Pro VC Prof M Badiul Alam, Prof Dr. Abul Kalam Azad and Prof Abdun Nur. When contacted CUTA President Prof Dr. Nurul Anwar told this correspondent that they would continue their strike till their demands are met. CUTA began the indefinite strike on August 23 as the Syndicate allegedly ignored its two-point demand. The demands are cancellation of appointment of 57 teachers allegedly made by defying the Planning Committee recommendations and of the "illegal process" for promotion of Dr. Abu Tyeb Chowdhury, a Jamaat-backed associate professor of geography department.
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