Pro-BNP panel sweeps RU teachers’ assoc polls

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RU Correspondent :
Pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed teachers white panel swept the elections of the Rajshahi University Teachers’ Association, dean and syndicate.
The pro-BNP-backed white panel Jatiyatabadi O Islami Mullobodhe Bishwashi Shikkhak Somaj bagged most of the important posts, including RUTA President and General Secretary, while ruling Awami League-backed yellow panel Muktijuddher Chetona O Mullobodhe Bishwasi Progotishil Shikkhak Somaj won a few posts.
The day-long elections for 70 posts under seven categories were held at the university teachers’ club, where around 1,150 teachers casted their votes.
RU registrar Professor MA Bari conducted the polls as the election commissioner.
In RUTA election, the white panel bagged the posts of president, general secretary, vice-president and treasurer while the yellow panel only bagged one post of joint secretary.
The white panel bagged only two posts of the executive member category while the yellow panel won the rest eight posts.
However, Masidul Haque was elected under lecturer category from the yellow panel without any contest as the white panel could not give any candidate for the category.
In deans’ polls, both the yellow and white panels won four posts each while the yellow panel’s Professor Dr. Md Ahsan Kabir won from the yellow panel as the white panel could not give any candidate for law Faculty. However, Professor Jafar Sadik and Prof Mahmud Hossain Riazi bagged the single post of the planning and development and financial committees.
19 posts out 33 in teachers’ representative at senate election were bagged by white panel while yellow panel bagged the rest posts.

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