A controversy has erupted at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) after Sanjida Yasmin Itu, a former vice-president of the university’s banned Chhatra League hall committee, was appointed as the house tutor of the newly inaugurated Begum Khaleda Zia Hall. The hall, opened on October 20 to expand accommodation for female students, has drawn criticism from various quarters for assigning a former student leader of the ruling party’s student wing to a hall named after opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia. Itu, now a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry, acknowledged her past position in the student organization but claimed she was never active in politics and that her name was included based on academic merit. The hall’s provost, Professor Dr. Md. Ali Reza Faruk, stated that junior-level teachers are typically appointed as house tutors and that the administration may have made the appointment due to a shortage of eligible candidates, adding that he would review the matter.