Sumon Mahbubbdnews24.com Senior Correspondent
Dhaka, May 3 (bdnews24.com)—Prof Sharif Enamul Kabir, the beleaguered Jahangirnagar University vice-chancellor, was all but fired Thursday night by the government after weeks of protests by teachers and students, a highly-placed source said.
"He has to go because the academic atmosphere is at stake," said the source after Kabir met the prime minister Thursday night in his last-ditch effort to save his job.
"In a way, he's been told to quit."
Hopes for the embattled vice-chancellor to cling on to his office had all but vanished earlier in the day when the prime minister told striking teachers to "wait and see and not get frustrated".
A group of teachers, after a meeting with the prime minister Thursday afternoon, called off their indefinite strike, which they had started on March 18.
"The prime minister told us to wait and see and not get frustrated," said Nasim Akhter Hossain, a professor of government and politics who was part of the teachers' team.
"We have complete confidence in the prime minister, and that's why we are calling off our strike," she said after a meeting with colleagues back on the campus in the evening.
"Wait and see what the chancellor [President Md Zillur Rahman] decides," the prime minister was quoted to have told the teachers' team.
But their students, some of whom have been on hunger strike since Tuesday, were not convinced.
They said they would continue with their fast-unto-death until Kabir left office.
Emerging from the prime minister's office Thursday night, Kabir said he would "respect any decision by the chancellor".
"I am going back home, happy," he, however, told waiting reporters.
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