Thousands of students of Dhaka University and other educational institutions on Thursday blocked Shahbagh intersection breaking a police barricade at about 5:00pm.
They reached as far as the Hotel Intercontinental intersection where the police put up another barricade.
Students were chanting slogans, including, ‘Why our fellows were attacked at Cumilla’, ‘We Demand Justice’, ‘Quota or Merit’, ‘Police cannot stop movement making threats’ and others.
‘We will not leave street until our demands are met. We want the government to enact a law in parliament abolishing all quotas in the public services except for a five per cent quota for marginalised people,’ said Abdur Razzak, a third-year student of Dhaka University.
Students brought out a procession from Dhaka College at 4:20pm to join their fellow quota protesters at Shahbagh. However, they could not follow through as they came across police barricades at Science Laboratory and, later, at Nilkhet intersection.
‘We brought out a procession at 4:20pm from Dhaka College to join our fellow quota protesters at Shahbagh but the police stopped us in front of Science Laboratory and, later, at Nilkhet intersection. We returned to the college at 5:00pm,’ said Dhaka College student Nazmul Hasan, one of the coordinators of the movement.
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