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Students block Shahbagh demanding quota abolition

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  04 Jul 2024, 16:58
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Students have blocked the Shahbagh intersection in the capital demanding restoration of the circular of 2018 on the cancellation of quota system in government jobs.

A procession under the banner 'Anti-Discriminatory Student Movement' brought out a procession from the campus to Shahbagh around 12:00pm on Thursday (July 4).

After visiting Surya Sen Hall, Haji Muhammad Mohsin Hall, TSC and Raju Sculpture the students took position in front of Dhaka University Central Library around 11am.

The protest caused traffic to halt, resulting in jams.

The protesting DU students blocked the Shahbagh intersection after a procession demanding the cancellation of quota system for the last two days. They chanted slogans like 'no quota, down the quota system, let meritorious be free, against discrimination, direct action' etc.

Ashraful Islam, deputy commissioner of the Ramna zone said, 'we are trying to convince the protesters to leave the intersection to allow for smooth vehicular movement, but the demonstrators had not yet been persuaded'.

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