The Jagannath University students yesterday vowed to continue their demonstration till their dormitories were recovered from their grabbers.
They made the vow at a previously scheduled rally held at the central Shaheed Minar on Sunday.
Thousands of JnU students came to the venue by the university buses voicing their only demand “Give our hall back to us”.
The entire Shaheed Minar premises turned into a human sea with the presence of students pressing for the demand.
Fakir Alamgir, a noted singer and former student of Jagannath College attended the rally around 11am and expressed solidarity with the students.
He urged the authorities concerned to take initiative for solving the students’ crisis and to withdraw the cases filed against the students by JnU in connection with teacher assault.
JnU unit Chhatra League president Shariful Islam, also convener of hall recovery committee, administered the oath to the attending students around 12pm.
Shariful said they would go on strike from Tuesday if the JnU authority did not withdraw cases field against them.
Following taking oath, the students said they would continue their demonstration till their demand was met and not back down.
The hall recovery committee leaders alleged that the JnU teachers threatened students with action over cellphones and asked them to back down.
However, the JnU Teachers’ Association President Prof Dr Sarkar Ali Akkas refused the allegation. He said they were with the students.
The rally ended at 1pm after declaring their next programme.
The JnU Teachers Association held a press briefing yesterday around 2pm.
The teachers said they could not attend the yesterday’s rally because one suspended student who assaulted a JnU teacher was leading the programme.
However, they said they would hold a protest programme and a human chain in front of the university’s Shaheed Minar on March 19 and 20.
Besides, a rally would be held on March 23 and 26 led by the JnU Teachers’ Association.