Students have announced to hold a road blockade program across the country on Sunday (July 7) to demand cancellation of quota. The program was announced before the blockade was lifted from Shahbag intersection on Saturday (July 6) afternoon.
Nahid Islam, one of the organizers of the anti-discrimination student movement, said that if the demands are not met, he will be forced to give a tougher program. If necessary, program like hartal will be given. Offices, courts, roads will be closed all over Bangladesh.
Declaring today's blockade as 'Bangla blockade', he said the Prime Minister had announced in 2018 that quota would no longer exist. But we want an answer as to why that quota came back again.
In the afternoon of this day, thousands of students protested in the Dhaka University (DU) campus and went to Shahbag. They blocked the busiest intersection of the capital for about an hour.
Earlier on Saturday around 3 pm, the protest march started in front of the central library of the university. Thousands of students from different halls joined the protest march.
The protest march went from TSC, Bakshi Bazar, BUET, Eden College, Newmarket Mor, TSC through Nilkhet Mor to Shahbag Mor.
