The protesting students of the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology continued their hunger strike for the third consecutive day on Wednesday although the education adviser Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar assured them of a solution and the authorities cancelled the decision to suspend 37 students.聽
Persistent with the one-point demand of removal of the university vice-chancellor, professor Mohammad Mashud, the students vowed to continue their movement until their demand was met.
On the day, a section of students of Jahangirnagar University and Rajshahi University also expressed solidarity with the protesting KUET students by starting a hunger strike.
Students of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology and other political parties also staged protests.
The KUET teachers association at a press briefing also threatened to go on a strike if the vice-chancellor was removed from his position.
At the 102th syndicate meeting held on the same day, decisions were also made to open all seven residential halls from Wednesday instead of May 2 and resume academic activities from the pre-scheduled date of May 4, said a press release issued by the university authorities.
A total of 32 students began the strike on April 21 afternoon demanding removal of the vice-chancellor for his alleged failure to provide security to the students and instigation to file cases against protesters and for temporarily expelling 37 students.
Till Wednesday 8:00pm, at least 23 students were observing the fast-unto-death programme while two were admitted to the hospital, said the university鈥檚 director of student welfare Professor Md Abdullah Elias Akhter.
Earlier, the education adviser visited the university in the morning and requested the students to withdraw the strike.
The students, however, continued their strike and brought out a protest rally on the campus.
Later, the education adviser told the journalists that they would take quick action when the probe committee would submit its report.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Dhaka University reported that 16 members of Bangladesh Democratic Student Council started a hunger strike on Tuesday evening on the campus and continued till Wednesday.
Democratic Student Alliance on Wednesday held symbolic fast in the capital鈥檚 Shahbagh area.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Jahangirnagar University reported that eight JU students have launched an indefinite hunger strike in solidarity with the KUET students.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Rajshahi reported that a group of RU students began a fast-unto-death programme.
Under the banner of 鈥楻UET General Students鈥�, students brought out the protest procession on the campus on the day.
In a press release Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal demanded punishment for the responsible people for the February 18 incident.
The current situation began unfolding on April 13 when a probe committee submitted its report to the KUET authorities following a violent clash between the JCD and the Students Against Discrimination on February 18 over a ban on student politics on the campus, leaving over 100 people injured.
