RU Correspondent :
The teachers, the students and different organisations of Rajshahi University yesterday (Monday) continued their demonstration on the campus for the tenth consecutive day demanding trial of the killers of Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee.
RU Teachers’ Association observed work abstention programme from 10:00am to 1:00pm as per the decision of the Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers’ Association.
They also staged sit-in programme in front of the senate building from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Speakers at the protest rally expressed their dissatisfaction at the slow progress of the police’s investigation.
RUTA President Prof Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah announced that they would hold a grand rally today (Tuesday) on the campus where teachers of different public universities will address.
They will also hold a candle light programme today evening at the university Kazla gate.
On the other hand, the teachers and the students of RU English department brought out a silent procession on the campus at 10:00am and joined a brief rally at Mukul Mancha, a makeshift platform set up after the nickname of the slain professor, after parading the whole campus.
The department’s students also brought out a mourning procession on the campus at 11am carrying four symbolic coffins that indicated four murders of RU teachers in past 12 years.
Addressing the rally, Professor Jahurul Islam declared that the department would continue their protest programme till May 19 although the university will go on summer vacation from May 06 to 26.
Addressing the rally, Prof Rezaul’s daughter Rizwana Hasin Shotovi urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasin for speedy trial of her father’s killers.
Thousands of students also brought out a protest procession on campus under the banner of “General Students” around 11:30am.
Meanwhile, Prof Siddiquee, a teacher of RU English department was brutally murdered in Rajshahi’s Shalbagan area on last Saturday morning by some unidentified miscreants.
Following the murder, protests from teachers and students of the university sparked on campus.
