Adviser to the ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs Supradip Chakma on Monday said that the government had all sympathy for the protesting national minority students but could not meet all their demands.
鈥楤ut it does not mean that we will meet all their demands,鈥� he told 抖阴精品.聽
He made the comments while talking on the attacks on the national minority students and their supporters holding demonstrations in the capital on January 15.
The protesters under the banner of Sangkhubdhho Adivasi Chhatra-Janata (aggrieved indigenous students-people) continued their protest for the sixth day in a row on Monday, demanding restoration of the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� in the textbooks, constitutional recognition and immediate action against all attackers.
A group of protesting students on the day met the adviser.
鈥楽ome of them came to me as my door is open for all,鈥� the adviser said, asking, 鈥榟ow is it possible to get beaten for demanding anything?鈥�
He said that the protesters wanted to meet some of the advisers with their demands and he would convey their proposal to other advisers.
Protest rallies were held in Rajshahi University and Sylhet district on the day.
Recently, the National Curriculum and Textbook Board removed a graffiti carrying the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� from the back cover of the Bangla grammar book for Classes IX and X, following demand from a group named Students for Sovereignty.
More than a dozen, mostly students, protesting under the banner of Sangkhubdhho Adivasi Chhatra-Janata, were injured in two attacks by the Students for Sovereignty in front of the NCTB Bhaban on January 15.
Next day on January 16, at least seven individuals, mostly students, were injured when the police swooped on a rally held in Dhaka in protest at the 15 January attack.
Alik Mree, one of the organisers under the banner, said that they met Supradip Chakma unofficially on Monday.
They were expecting to meet the adviser officially on Wednesday, he added.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Rahshahi reported that around 50 national minority students of Rajshahi University under the banner RU Pahari Chhatra Parishad on Monday staged a demonstration protesting against the recent attacks.
At the rally, the organization鈥檚 secretary Prince Hemant Tudu demanded immediate resignation of the NCTB chairman.
A case was filed against 16 named and 200鈥�300 unnamed people with the Motijheel police on January 17 over the attack on January 15, following which two men were arrested the same night who are now held in jail custody.
