RU Correspondent :
Teachers, Students and staff of Rajshahi University (RU) on Monday celebrated the university’s 61st founding anniversary amid great enthusiasm and festivity vowing to establish a violent-free campus.
Shahriar Alam MP, state minister for foreign affairs, inaugurated the programmes at 10:10am while RU vice chancellor Prof Muhammad Mizanuddin presided over the function.
Later a colourful procession with banners and festoons was brought out on the campus led by the duo (state minister and VC) at 10:30am while more than a thousand students, teachers and staff took part in that procession.
All the buildings of the university were decorated with colorful lights, and the flag flew atop them.
Later, addressing at a discussion, the speakers vowed to establish a violent free campus and establishing the university as a model for the whole world. RU VC Prof Muhammad Mizanuddin vowed to resist violent politics on the campus to run the university’s research and other academic activities smoothly.
Seeking aids from politicians, he viewed that only politicians can prevent violent on the campus.
State minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam said, Rajshahi University has a great contribution to establish an independent Bangladesh.
He recalled the outstanding sacrifice of Prof Shamsuzzoha for the democratic movement of Bangladesh, who was shot dead in 1969 by oppressive rulers of Pakistan.
He also emphasised upholding the tradition of the university and urged the students to play a greater role in promoting the spirit of the Liberation War and free thinking.
RU started its journey on July 6, 1953 with six departments under three faculties with only 161 students and 68 teachers with Prof Itrat Hossain Zuberi as the founder VC.
Now it has about 33,000 students and 1,200 teachers in 50 departments under nine faculties, five research institutes, and 17 residential halls.
