Strike in all universities for Sunday. Students against BCS job quota demonstrated in major universities including DU and BUET Saturday. Demonstrators also called a strike in all the public universities and colleges across the country for Sunday demanding the release of their fellow men arrested and scrapping the quota system. Mahmud, a spokesperson of the protesters who prefers the use of single name, told reporters that they announced the fresh programmes to realise their demands for cancellation of the quota system in government jobs and the release of their fellowmen arrested on Thursday and Friday. He said the demonstrations will be held in all the public universities and colleges across the country on Saturday. Mahmud claimed that police arrested 43 students on Friday. Of them, Shahbagh police held 36 from Shahbagh and Dhaka University (DU), while Lalbagh police four from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) and three from Shaheed Minar area on Friday. Earlier, police foiled the attempts of the students of DU, Buet and Dhak Medical College (DMC) to stage demonstrations against the BCS quota system. The law enforcers thwarted the DU students’ bid to hold their prescheduled rally at Shahbah intersection around 3pm. Witnesses said a large number of DU students gathered at the intersection to hold their rally. But police did not allow them to stay there and detained 36 suspected protesters from Shahbagh area. Earlier, in the morning, police and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the associate student body of the ruling Awami League, foiled an attempt to hold a prescheduled procession by BCS job seekers on the Buet campus. Campus sources said a good number of policemen and BCL activists took position at the entrances and inside Buet in the morning preventing students from gathering there to hold their procession. Police foiled another programme of DMC students, also against the job quota, at the Central Shaheed Minar at noon. After they were forced to leave Shahbagh intersection on Thursday, the students agitating against the BCS job quota announced to hold fresh programmes on Friday. In the face of a protest at Shahbagh intersection on Wednesday by the students from different educational institutions, including Dhaka University, Jahangirnagar University, Jagannath University, Dhaka College and Eden College against the public service quota system, Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) said it would review the 34th BCS preliminary test results. The results of the 34th BCS preliminary examination were published on Monday, triggering the protests, as only 12,033 candidates, out of 225,575, qualified for the PSC’s written examinations. Meanwhile, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the associate student body of opposition BNP, at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office on Friday evening urged the government to accept the demand of BCS job seeker for cancellation of the quota system. BNP leader Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee, Sultan Salahuddin Tuku, JCD president Abdul Quader Bhuiyan Jewel and general secretary Habibur Rashid Habib were, among others, present at the press conference.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 14:15:44 +0000
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