The recruitment process has drawn flak and triggered strong protest among teachers and different student organisations.

Several selection committees have selected the 15 candidates -- seven for botany department, two for English, four for Bangla and two for mathematics -- until March 20.

The JU authorities in vacancy announcements, however, asked for five faculty members for botany and three for Bangla and English departments, while they did not make any announcement for mathematics at all.

Students of botany today besiege the administrative building, where the syndicate meet is scheduled to be held at 4:00pm, to protest selection of two 'less-qualified' candidates without any advert.

They however failed to demonstrate yesterday as 50 to 60 activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) led by its JU unit president forced them to give in. The JCD also threatened them of dire consequences if they staged further demonstrations.

The JCD president, Parvez Mallick, however disputed the allegation and claimed they had rather expressed their solidarity with the botany students.

Teachers and students of the department are agitating simultaneously against the appointment bid since March 22, refraining from attending classes and examinations.

Teachers and students' representatives from different departments and left-leaning organisations held a teacher-student protest rally in front of Social Science Faculty at 11:00am.

The rally demanded that the JU authorities desist from appointing teachers to favour their own people or gain politically.

Vice-chancellor Khandaker Mustahidur Rahman said, "The selection committees have made the best choices. The syndicate will now decide about the appointment."