
The government on Monday suspended Lalmonirhat deputy commissioner office’s assistant commissioner Taposhee Tabassum Urmi following her controversial remark against the interim government and July movement hero Abu Sayeed.
The Chief Adviser’s Office press wing on Monday confirmed that the public administration ministry took the decision about her suspension a day after she was made an officer on special duty amid criticism and protests against her for her remarks.
On Saturday, she wrote on Facebook that the interim government had no constitutional basis.
‘The countdown has begun for you, sir,’ she wrote, addressing chief adviser to the interim government Prof Muhammad Yunus.
She also mentioned Begum Rokeya University and July movement hero Abu Sayeed, who was killed in police firing, as terrorist.
Meanwhile, the students of the BRUR brought out a protest procession and held a rally in front of the Shahid Abu Sayeed gate of the university and demanded expulsion of the public servant, ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· correspondent in Rangpur reported.
The students gave the government an ultimatum of 24 hours to discharge her from the job permanently and bring under trial and otherwise they would hold a blockade programme in the northern districts and bring out a long march.
BRUR Bengali department student Md Sumon said Taposhee is an associate of the fascist AL government. The government was ousted but its cohorts are still active in the administration.
He urged the interim government to take stern measures against the fascist’s associates.
‘The evils of AL are still active everywhere who are trying to make plots in order to create a restless situation in the country. The Facebook post made by Taposhee Tabassum Urmi is a part of conspiracy,’ said Rahmat Ali, a coordinator of the Student Movement against Discrimination.
He demanded immediate exemplary punishment of the public servant.Â
On July 16, BRUR English department student Abu Sayeed, a coordinator of the anti-quota movement, was killed in police firing when the police and Bangladesh Chhatra League launched attacks on student protesters leading to the mass uprising that ousted the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina on August 5.
¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· correspondent at Jahangirganagr University reported that the students of the university demanded the permanent dismissal and punishment of the public servant for calling the first martyr of the quota reform movement, Abu Saeed, a terrorist.
The students brought out a protest march from in front of the new administrative building of the university at about 4:00pm on the day to press home their demand.
The procession marched along the main roads of the university and ended in a brief rally on the same spot.
The speakers at the rally claimed that such comments of the accused Taposhee are extremely insulting to all the martyrs in the anti-tyranny movement.
Abdur Rashid Jitu, a student of the 47th batch of Bangabandhu Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture of the university said, ‘The magistrate was the accomplice of the Hasina-led authoritarian regime.’
He also urged the interim government to reform the bureaucracy that is allegedly biased to Sheikh Hasina and her cohorts.Â
Besides, they demanded Taposhee Tabassum to be permanently fired from her job and be punished according to the law.
The speakers also announced the blockade of the Dhaka-Aricha highway if the demands are not met within the next 24 hours.