DeskReport
For the third consecutive day, teachers and students of Jagannath University (JU) are staying at the Kakrail intersection. As part of the ongoing movement, a rally is being held today with four demands. The university’s teachers, current and former students of various departments participated in the rally. The rally began at 10 am today, Friday, at the intersection next to the Kakrail Mosque.
Former students said, “We are uncompromising on the issue of Jagannath University. We have fought for our rights before, and we are still fighting. There is no difference. The students’ demands must be accepted. The attacks on teachers and students must be prosecuted.”
At a press conference at 11 am, Professor Dr. Md. Raish Uddin, General Secretary of the Teachers’ Association, said, “Every citizen of this country expects their rights. For three days, my students have been protesting under the open sky to realize their demands. But no solution has come from the government yet. However, if they wanted, it could have been resolved on the first day. Jagannath University is oppressed, deprived and crushed. We have reached a point from which there is no way back. If our demands are not met, this Kakrail intersection will become the center for implementing another public demand. If the government founded on our blood threatens us, we will stop it.”
Shakha Chhatra Dal member secretary Shamsul Arefin said, “We have brought a fair demand. We will not go until the demand is met. However, if anyone wants to direct our movement in a different direction, he will not be spared. All those who have brought demands here are July warriors.
The university’s teachers and students have planned to sit on a mass hunger strike after Juma prayers this Friday.
He further said, “I have come to claim this fundamental right not as the former VP of Jagannath University, but as an ordinary student.”
