The Bangladesh General Students' Rights Protection Council has called a strike at all educational institutions across the country on Saturday, in protest of the attacks on students by “police and miscreants” during the demonstrations for safer roads.
Bin Yamin Molla, joint convener of the platform which leads the quota reform movement, announced the strike at a press conference in front of the National Press Club on Friday, reports UNB.
He said the strike will be enforced from 10am to 5pm, to protest the attacks on students in Mirpur and Dania in Dhaka, as well as attacks in the Narayanganj, Noakhali and Chandpur districts.
Yamin urged students of all educational institutions, including schools, colleges and universities, not to attend classes and examinations during the strike.
He also urged the government to accept the nine-point demand of the protesting students,as well as the three-point demands of quota reformists.
Saying that both movements were in the greater interest of the nation, Yamin asked all students, guardians, and conscious citizens of Bangladesh to join the protests.