THE convener of Awami League-backed Dhaka University Teachers’ forum the ‘Blue Panel’ Abdul Aziz on Monday demanded the appointment of all Chhatra League men to government jobs, no matter whether they hold third class certificates in public examinations raising questions about the comments. But the honourable varsity teacher said only BCL men should get the job so long the Awami League government is in power and their only qualifications should be their sufferings from injuries from attacks they sustained in running the students movement for the party which led it to power. A news item in a national English daily on Tuesday quoted him as making the demand at a meeting at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall where the Minister for Cultural Affairs Asaduzzaman Noor was the chief guest. Aziz asked the government to recruit BCL activists to pay back for their sacrifice. We hold the view that not only BCL men, everyone should get the job based on merit.
The Chemistry department professor was speaking at the 94th birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib organised by the hall unit of the ruling party backed students’ body. He retorted ‘I, on behalf of the BCL leaders and activists demand that all BCL men be recruited in jobs.’ He cited his experience of a failed recommendation for a BCL man for a job and said since the candidate had third class certificates in all examinations he was not given the job. It was quite distressing for the party men. He then said for job recruitment, there is no need of other criteria other than being a BCL activist who suffered attacks for party politics. The Minister, however, disagreed with the demand saying, ‘Its true all BCL men must get jobs but certainly by dint of their merit, results and talent.’
The demand is unreasonable that the Minister for Cultural Affairs Asaduzzaman Noor, who has an arrogant idea about the government’s legitimacy and power, even felt embarrassed by such a demand that government jobs will be distributed only among the followers of the Awami League backed students.
We feel ashamed that a university teacher of Dhaka University stature could make such an idiotic demand. He has only proved how incompetent he is to be a university teacher. His idea is that the government is only for Awami League, not for the people. It may be, he unconsciously expressed what he thought of the present government-it is not a people’s government, but a government of the party and party followers alone.
