The teachers described the president's move as a "clear violation" of the country's constitution and said that October 29 will be written in history as a black day.

"The president was the nation's last resort. He was supposed to uphold the country's constitution as its custodian. But he has taken oath as the caretaker chief violating the constitution. This is indecent," former President of Dhaka University Teachers' Association (Duta) Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique told UNB.

Prof Arefin said there were so many alternatives before the president in appointing a nonpartisan caretaker chief, but he did not make the proper use of the alternatives.

"As per the constitution, the president was supposed to appoint a caretaker chief on the basis of a consensus of the country's political parties. He didn't take the opinions of country's major political parties into consideration. He can't do so. This is unconstitutional," Prof Arefin said.

According to the constitution, Prof Arefin further said, the maximum age of a caretaker chief is supposed to be below 72, but the president is already 76.

Duta General Secretary Dr Akhtaruzzaman said this caretaker government would just be an extended body of the BNP-Jamaat alliance government.

"Such caretaker government is the outcome of BNP-Jamaat's long drawn conspiracy. People will never accept such a government. The evil forces will soon be brought to justice by the patriotic forces," he told UNB.

When contacted, some other senior teachers of the university, including former VC Prof AK Azad Chowdhury and Social Science Faculty Dean Prof Harun-or-Rashid also came up with such reaction.