Staff Reporter:
Thousands of Jagannath University (JnU) students yesterday besieged Bangladesh Secretariat to press home their five-point demands including construction of university’s second campus by the army and increasing the university’s budget allocation.
The students took position in front of the education building on Monday and later a 12-member delega-tion of students entered the Secretariat with a memorandum to submit it to the Education Secretary.
As the Education Secretary did not meet them, the students continued their siege program.
The 12-member delegation includes their spokesperson Tausib Mahmud Sohan, organizers AKM Rakib, Raisul Islam Noyon, Asadul Islam, Abu Bakr Khan, Naushin Nawar Joya, Sohan Pramanik, Masud Ra-na, Nur Nabi, Omar Faruk, Ferdous Sheikh, and Apu Munshi.
The students demanded that the Project Director appointed during the autocratic regime for the conduc-tion of 2nd campus must be brought under legal scrutiny, and within seven days, this responsibility must be handed over to army, immediate steps must be taken to acquire the remaining 11 acres of land, and all agreements regarding the old campus made during the autocratic regime must be cancelled.
