While conducting election-related duties during the ongoing Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union (JUCSU) polls, a lecturer from Jahangirnagar University (JU) passed away this morning.
Jannatul Ferdous, a lecturer in the university’s Fine Arts Department, was identified as the deceased. She passed away en route to the hospital after becoming ill during the vote counting procedure.
I was the returning officer at Pritilata Hall, and she was the polling officer, according to Associate Professor Shamim Reza, chairperson of the Fine Arts Department.
“During the counting in the morning, she suddenly collapsed at the entrance. She was immediately taken to Enam Medical College Hospital, but she passed away on the way,” he added.
JU Proctor and Election Commission member-secretary Professor Dr A K M Rashidul Alam said, “As the counting of all hall union votes could not be completed at night due to fatigue and absence of polling agents, the Pritilata Hall counting was scheduled for the morning. She came with her colleagues to the counting center but collapsed near the Senate Hall gate. An ambulance rushed her to hospital, but she had already breathed her last.”
The incident cast a pall of gloom over the campus. Teachers, students and colleagues expressed deep shock and extended condolences to the bereaved family.
