Students of different public universities, including Dhaka University, Rajshahi University and Jahangirnagar University on Thursday protested at the High Court order for the restoration of 30 per cent quota for freedom fighters鈥� children and grandchildren in the government jobs.
The HC on Wednesday asked the government to restore 30 per cent quota for the children and grandchildren for the cadre and non-cadre service in the government job, sparking fresh protest in Dhaka and other places.
Hundreds of students brought out protest procession, rallies, blocking highways, and formed human chains as part of their protests.
Following the HC directive, Dhaka University students held protests at 8:00pm on Wednesday, 11:30am and 5:00pm on Thursday on the campus, 抖阴精品 correspondent from Dhaka University reported.聽
Addressing at a human chain at the foot of the Raju Memorial Sculpture on Dhaka University campus at 11:30am on Thursday, former convener of Quota Reformation Movement-2018, Hasan Al Mamun said, 鈥楾he High Court decision to reinstate the quota system in government jobs is not only illegal but also unconstitutional as the constitution clearly states that every citizens will have equal rights in the country.鈥�
He said that the decision would create discrimination to the general students.
Protesters said that the quota system was contrary to the spirit of the War of Independence.
鈥業f it is an attempt to bring back the quota system, we will again launch tougher movements in the coming days what we did in 2018,鈥� he added.
The general students of Dhaka University formed a human chain on Wednesday night on the university campus, hours after the HC directives.
Rejecting the HC move, Democratic Student Force member secretary Nahid Islam, also a DU student, said, 鈥業f this High Court verdict remains in effect, we will have to go for a long-term movement.鈥�
The students also brought out a protest procession from in front of the Central Public Library which marched past Rokeya Hall and ended at the foot of Raju Memorial Sculpture.聽
Jahangirnagar University students blocked the Dhaka-Aricha highway on Thursday protesting at the High Court鈥檚 directives reinstating quotas in the government jobs, JU correspondent of 抖阴精品 reported.
Following a rally in front of the university鈥檚 central library at about 11:00am, over a hundred protesters brought out a protest procession on the campus and stood on Dhaka-Aricha Highway for about half an hour.
It triggered long tailback as the vehicular movement stopped in the busy area.
Several hundred students of Rajshahi University formed a human chain in front of the university鈥檚 central library and later brought out a procession on the campus protesting against the HC order, 抖阴精品 Staff Correspondent in Rajshahi reported.
Addressing the human chain, law department student Sanjida Akhter said that reinstatement of the previous quota system in the civil service was not only illogical but also a clear discrimination to the general students.
鈥楢ccording to the HC鈥檚 verdict, only 44 per cent vacancies are to be filled up from merit list while the remaining 56 per cent are to be filled under various quotas. It is like the discrimination towards East Pakistan during the Pakistan period,鈥� she said.
Population Science and Human Resource Development student Amanullah Aman said that the HC order to reinstate the 30 per cent quota for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters was one kind of deception to those who took the street in 2018 demanding abolition of all kinds of quota in government jobs.
The demonstrators also announced that they would continue their movement until their demand was met.
On October 4, 2018, the government issued a circular abolishing all the 56 per cent quotas in the public service in the wake of street protests by the public university students and jobseekers demanding reforms to the quota system introduced in 1972.
Until the abolition, about 56 per cent of government jobs were reserved for candidates from various quotas. Of this, 30 per cent were for freedom fighters鈥� children and grandchildren, 10 per cent for women, 10 per cent for people of underdeveloped districts, 5 per cent for members of indigenous communities and 1 per cent for physically challenged people.