CoU Correspondent

A fraction of Comilla University (CoU) BangabandhuParishadon Wednesday condemned another one, which has got a new committee on Tuesday, in a protest letter signed by the fraction’s convener Professor G. M. Moniruzzaman and secretary member Md. Mokaddesul Islam.
The letter reads, CoUBangabandhuParishad has been practicing Bangabandhu's ideology since 2010. As per the constitution ofthe organization, a new committee has to be formed in every year. But violating the rule, the executive committee, formed on March 23, 2018, made no newone in 2019 and 2020 sessions to monopolize power.
The statement also says, in order to get rid of such vicious, arbitrary and illegal committee, the general members of BangabandhuParishad decided to form a new committee. Hereby, according to the article 8 of the constitution of BangabandhuParishad, a five-member convening committee was formed on December 4, 2020, headingprofessor G. M.Moniruzzamanas the convener and Mokaddesul Islam as secretary member, on the basis of two-thirds of the teacher’s opinion.
The statement further said, on January 5, a small number of teachers ignored the opinion of two-thirds of the teachers and announced a new committee of BangabandhuParishad to satisfy their vested interests, disrupt the development activities of the university and do contentionalpoliticis which is against the ideology of Bangabandhu and the spirit of liberation war. We strongly condemn and protest against such irrational, illegal and unconstitutional activities.
Meanwhile, on December 6 last year, some of the teachers, claiming expiration of the then committee of BangabandhuParishad, expressed their distrust on the president and general secretaryand formed a new convening committee centering the teacher’s association election held on Decmeber 13, last year. Later, both the fractions took part in the election with separate blue panel claiming self to be BangabandhuParishad.

However, on January 5, the fraction sticking up for the old one formed a new executive committee for the 2021 sessionselecting Accounting and Information Systems Department Associate Professor Mohammad Mizanur Rahman and Economics Department Assistant Professor Mohammad Nasir Hussain as president and general secretary respectively.