The students who gathered at Shahbagh in Bangladesh capital Dhaka at about 4:00pm to block the intersection and its adjoining areas left the place after over four hours announcing that they would block different areas in the city Monday afternoon.
The protesters blocked roads and highways in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country demanding cancellation of the High Court order to reinstate 30 per cent quotas for freedom fighters鈥� children and grandchildren in government job.
They chanted slogans, recited poems, played crickets and played instrumental recitals as part of the protest while a lane from Shahbagh to Matsya Bhaban, Katabon, Banglamotor wore a deserted look as protesters did not allow any vehicles to ply on those roads, except ambulances.
Closing the day鈥檚 blockade minutes after 8:00pm in the capital鈥檚 Shahbagh intersection, Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the 鈥楽tudent Movement against Discrimination鈥�, a platform for anti-quota movement, announced that they would enforce blockade in more city areas on Monday.
鈥榃e will continue blockade for an indefinite period. 鈥he students will gather in front of the university鈥檚 central library at about 3:30pm,鈥� said Nahid.
He said that if the ruling Awami League鈥檚 student wing Bangladesh Chattra League tried to create obstacles in joining protests, they would blockade residential halls.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday dismissed the movement against the quota system in the government jobs as irrational saying, 鈥業t is sub-judice.鈥�
聽鈥業 don鈥檛 think there is any rationality for what is being done today in the name of movement by wasting the study time,鈥� United News of Bangladesh quoted prime minister Sheikh Hasina as saying.
The prime minister said this when the central leaders of Juba Mohila League paid a courtesy call on her at Ganabhaban on the occasion of its 22nd founding anniversary.
Responding to the prime minister鈥檚 remarks, Nahid said, 鈥榃e want to say with due respect that we had proved the logic of our movement in 2018.鈥�
