Four Advisers Thursday had informal pre-dialogue interactions with Jamaat-e-Islami leaders who demanded parliamentary elections prior to local body polls and release of Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina to participate in the formal dialogue with the government, reports UNB.

Communications Adviser Maj Gen (retd) Ghulam Quader, Foreign Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Education and Commerce Adviser Dr Hossain Zillur and LGRD Adviser Anwarul Iqbal held the parley with a 4-member Jamaat delegation led by its Nayeb-e-Ameer Makbul Hossain at the Railway Bhaban.

Other members of the Jamaat delegation were Maulana Abdus Sobhan, Mohammad Qamaruzzaman and Barrister Abdur Razzak.

The meeting lasted for one hour and 15 minutes from 10:25am. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Qamaruzzaman said they discussed creation of election atmosphere, holding of parliamentary elections before local body elections and release of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, if necessary on bail, to allow them to take part in the proposed dialogue.

Removal of VCs, Pro-VCs, treasurers appointed by alliance govt demanded(DC) Some 181 Dhaka University teachers Thursday demanded immediate removal of the Vice Chancellors, Pro-Vice Chancellors and Treasurers appointed to different universities on political considerations by the four-party alliance government, reports UNB.

In a joint statement, they said those appointed on political considerations are still there and some of them have been promoted. "They kept indulging in corruption, politicisation, nepotism," the statement said urging the government to remove them and appoint acceptable and honest persons to the posts.

The DU teachers also demanded the government take legal actions against those who have already been identified as corrupts. The signatories to the statement included Dr Harun-ar-Rashid, Prof Dr Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Dr M Wahiduzzaman, Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique and Prof Mohammad Anwar Hossain.

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