Dhaka, June 2 -- Responding to the long-standing demands of students, the administration has formed an election commission for the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) elections. Three teachers have been made election commissioners for the polls.

They are Professor Mohammad Zashim Uddin of the university's Department of Botany, Professor SM Shameem Reza of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism and Professor Kazi Maruful Islam of the Department of Development Studies.

A statement issued by the university on Monday said despite some temporary stagnation in organising election-related meetings due to recent events, the process of forming the DUCSU Election Commission, which is the seventh step in the announced tim...