There were hardly any classes in the last three days at Dhobakhola Coronation High School and College in Bera upazila after local lawmaker Khandaker Azizul Haque Arzu on Saturday used the classrooms to feed thousands of villagers who left behind litter and leftover food everywhere.

The employees have been struggling to clean the classrooms, toilets and the front yard since Sunday morning.

Authorities managed to hold only a few classes yesterday with a few students.

But some of the students who attended the classes yesterday said they were nauseated by the strong smell of rotten food.

Headmaster Abu Bakar Siddique said, “The school practically turned into a garbage station after Saturday's program.

They cooked here. Several thousand people took turns to eat in the classrooms.”

He added that all classes would resume from today.

Some of the students who came yesterday were turned away by the litter and smell.

“I came to school after two days only to find that there is no way I could stay there for long,” said a teenager.

The feast was part of lawmaker Khandakar Azizul Haque Arzu's effort to get the Awami League ticket in the next elections, locals said.

Asked, lawmaker Azizul Haque Arzu told reporters on Saturday that the students and parents would have no problem with what was happening.

 “The parents and children are willingly making the sacrifice…. I am their guardian,” he said.

Contacted, Shajahan Ali Saju, president of the school governing body, said he saw nothing wrong with holding the programme there.

“The institution is located near the MP's house. So the campus was used for the purpose,” he said.

Bera Upazila Parishad Chairman Abdul Kader, also president of the Upazila Education Committee, said nobody had the right to do such a thing.

“Nobody can do this. It is very painful when a lawmaker does such a thing…,” he said.