Staff Reporter:
The students of seven colleges who were waging campaign yesterday lifted their 24-hour ultima-tum for fulfilling their six-point demand after a meeting with advisers of the home and infor-mation & broadcasting ministries.
“We have withdrawn our 24-hour ultimatum after getting assurances for fulfilling our six-point demands,” a spokesman of the students told reporters emerging from the meeting at the Home Ministry inside Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday.
Mainul Islam, a Dhaka College student, said that the government showed their positive attitude to their demands and met several of those by now.
He said the college students also called off their program to seize New Market Police Station and debar Dhaka University (DU) buses from plying on the streets of the capital to press home their demands.
Mainul said in lone with their demands the authorities already cancelled the seven colleges’ affilia-tions with the DU and opened the city corporation roads for all inside DU campus.
Home Affairs Adviser retired lieutenant general Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury and Information adviser Nasid Islam’s meeting with the students continued for some 90 minutes starting at 1.30 PM.
Special Assistant to Chief Adviser, equivalent to state minister on home ministry Md Khuda Baksh Chowdhury also joined the meeting when a three-member delegation represented the col-lege students, two of them from Dhaka College and one from Eden Mohila College.
“We have discussed about their demands and problems in details in the meeting,” the home affairs adviser later told the newsmen.
