The anti-discrimination student movement leaders on July 10 last year vowed to continue their protests demanding quota reform despite the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court issued a status quo on the High Court order over retaining the quota in government jobs on the same day.
The apex court ordered the status quo for four weeks following two separate petitions, filed by the government and two Dhaka University students, challenging the HC judgment and asked the petitioners to file separate leave-to-appeal petitions and set August 7, 2024 for a hearing on those.
Following the ruling, the then chief justice had urged the student protesters to return home. But the protesting students vowed to continue their demonstrations until the government would form a commission to reform the quota system and pass a law in the parliament in this regard.
Sarjis Alam, a key-organiser of the anti-discrimination student movement, told protesters at the Shahbagh intersection on the evening of July 10 that they would relent only if they would get word from the highest executive position that the quota system would be reformed through a commission.বিস্তারিত