Home and agriculture adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Tuesday said the interim government did not want to go tough against the students.
鈥榃e don鈥檛 want to take any measures against the students or go tough on them because they are our children,鈥� he said while visiting the crop protection embankment at Matian Haor in Umedpur area under Tahirpur Upazila in Sunamganj district.
He said the students would place their logical demands and the government would look into the matter and thus pacify them.
The home minister advised the students to hold talks with them about their demands and express their resentment in the Suhrawardi Udyan instead of taking to the streets.
About the problems that took place between the colleges, he said delegations of the students and teachers of the concerned colleges could solve the problem by holding talks.
He has requested the students not to take to the streets, adding, 鈥榃e don鈥檛 want to behave rudely with the students like the previous government. We want to solve each of the problems through discussions.鈥�
Environment, forest and climate change adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan, secretary Farhina Ahmed, water resources secretary Nazmul Ahsan, deputy commissioner of Sunamganj Mohammad Ilias Mia, police super of Sunamganj AFM Anwar Hossain and executive engineer of Water Development Board, Sunamganj Mamun Hawlader, among others, were present.
