Staff Reporter:
Agitating students brought out procession on Dhaka University campus as part of their ‘Bangla Blockade’ programme enforced against the prevailing 30 percent quota system for freedom fighters’ family members in government jobs.
The procession also aimed to protest the attacks on anti-quota demonstrators in different parts of the country.
A number of DU students, under the banner of anti-discriminatory student movement, brought out the procession from in front of the Central Library around 5 pm and they were proceeding towards Shahbagh intersection marching different streets of the DU.
Additionally, leaders of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student body of the Awami League, were reported to gather at Madhur Canteen with a plan to persuade the agitating students to return to their classes sunning the path of the movement.