The anti-discrimination student movement demanding reinstatement of the 2018 circular scraping the quota system in government jobs got momentum on July 3, spreading to educational institutions across the country.
After the vacation of Eid-ul-Azha, the university campuses and other educational institutions across the country turned into protest grounds that eventually evolved into “July Uprising” countrywide spontaneously participated by student-mass people, ending the almost 16 years autocratic rule of Awami League.
In continuation with the movement, students of Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh staged a demonstration by blocking a railway track, disrupting train movement on July 3.
Jahangirnagar University students blocked the Dhaka-Aricha Highway, Chattogram University students barricaded the Chattogram-Khagrachhari Highway and Barishal University students blocked the Barishal-Kuakata Highway as well.
On the day, the protestors laid a siege to capital’s key Shahbagh intersection for around one and a half hours. At around 2.30pm, students gathered in front of the Dhaka University Central Library to press home their demands.বিস্তারিত