Anti-Discrimination Students’ Platform Anti-Discrimination Student Movement will hold a protest march and rally across the country on Tuesday afternoon to protest against the BLA’s attack on the quota reform activists and demand the withdrawal of the Prime Minister’s speech. They announced this program after a protest march in front of Curzon Hall of Dhaka University on Monday night.
In the press conference, it was alleged that the BCL attacked the students by using rods and sticks.
Nahid Islam, the coordinator of the movement, also called upon the BCL leaders and activists who took part in the attack not to enter the hall.
Meanwhile, protests against the attack by the Chhatra League on the anti-quota activists in Dhaka University spread to various university campuses in the country. Chhatra League leaders and activists also attacked some such protests.
Several people were reported injured in the attack on anti-quota activists at Jahangirnagar, Chittagong University on Monday.
Students of Khulna University and Kuwait held a protest program by blocking the Dhaka Khulna highway. Protests were held in various campuses including Barisal, Rajshahi University.
Students of Barisal University blocked the Dhaka-Patuakhali highway.
Journalists working at Comilla Rajshahi and Shahjalal Science and Technology University told BBC Bangla that several people were injured in the BCL attack.
The students of Jahangirnagar University took to the streets in protest after the attack on the quota reforming students in Dhaka University.
Students started gathering in front of the university library after 5 pm.
Mehdi Mamun, a journalist working at Jahangirnagar University, told BBC Bangla that when the protest march was taken out in front of the university library at 6:30 in the evening, the Chhatra League attacked the protesting students around 7:30.
The attack was led by the top leaders of the University Chhatra League.
Mamun said that for about half an hour there was a chase between the quota activists and the Chhatra League in the Shahid Minar area of the university.
At least 10 students, including a teacher and four female students, have been injured in this clash till the time of writing this news.
The injured teacher’s name is Awlad Hossain. He is a professor of chemistry in the university.
In addition, at least 10 people including Abdur Rashid Jitu, one of the coordinators of the Jahangirnagar University branch of the anti-discrimination student movement, were injured in this attack, said Mamun.
What happened in Chittagong University
Chittagong University was hot since Monday morning. At this time there was also an incident of attack by Chhatra League on the quota activists.
Chittagong University journalist Redwan Ahmad told BBC Bangla that the quota activists were preparing to go to Chittagong city by shuttle train to carry out the program. Then the leaders and activists of Chhatra League arrested Talat Mahmud Rafi, the co-coordinator of the movement.
The BCL took Rafi from the train station to the proctor’s office. He was assaulted in the presence of the proctor.
Then a part of the protesting students took a position in front of the proctor’s office. Then the leaders and activists of Chhatra League chased some students.
Chittagong University journalist Ahmed told BBC Bangla, ‘When a part of quota agitating students took out a procession on the campus in protest, the Chhatra League attacked them. Several people were injured in this incident.’
Ahmed said that Talat Rafi was admitted to the university using the freedom fighter quota. One of his statements demanding cancellation of quota went viral.
In a press conference on Sunday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina criticized an unnamed student admitted to Muktijodha Quota University.
Meanwhile, in the afternoon in Chittagong’s 16 cities, students of various colleges and universities started protesting to demand quota reform, and the BCL attacked them.
Redwan Ahmad also said that some cocktails exploded at that time.
Meanwhile, the two sides chased each other. Later the situation calmed down with the presence of the police.
Blockade of road by KUET and Khulna University students
The students of various institutions of Khulna were present to protest the attack of Chhatra League on the protesting students of Dhaka University.
Around 5 pm later, students from various government colleges of Khulna including Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) gathered and laid siege to the zero point area of the city.
Khulna journalist Hasan Himalaya told BBC Bangla that around 5:30 in the afternoon, students began to gather at the Hami square of Khulna University campus. From there they circled the various roads of the campus with a procession.
Later, the students of Khulna University KUET and various colleges of the city together went to the Zero Point area through the Khulna-Satkhira highway. They went there and started the sit-in program by blocking the road.
There is no BCL committee in Khulna University as it is a politics-free campus. Therefore, there was no activity of the students’ movement in Khulna, said Mr. Himalayas
A little later, the protesting students blocked the Dhaka-Khulna-Mongla road for an hour.
Protests and attacks on other campuses
The students staged protests and sit-ins at Rajshahi University, terming the Prime Minister’s press conference as ‘insulting’.
Rajshahi University journalist Abdul Sabur told BBC Bangla that they held this program on Monday from 1:15 to 1:50 on Paris Road of the university.
Students of Rajshahi University, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Barendra University were present in the program.
A few minutes after this program, some protesting students of Rajshahi University were attacked by Chhatra League leaders and activists, said Mr. of all
At least four anti-quota activists were injured in the attack.
After the attack, the Chhatra League took out a protest march on the campus against the quota agitators.
There were reports of an attack on some protesting students of Comilla University on Monday evening.
Students of Barisal University protested against the attack of Chhatra League on protesting students in Dhaka University.
Quota activists protested by blocking the Dhaka-Patuakhali highway for an hour in this incident.