Protesting students have returned to their classrooms, from the streets, due to panic and pressure from authorities of educational institutes.
Students, who demonstrated over the last several days demanding safer roads following the deaths of two college students, were not seen on Dhaka streets on Monday, reported our correspondents posted in different points of the city.
A student from Shahid Police Smrity College said: “I am now in college since the government has accepted our demands and the college authorities have asked us to come back to classes.”
Another student from Adamjee Cantonment College said he attendedhis college.
The student, on condition of anonymity, said they were panicked as many protesters were assaulted and beaten up over the last couple of days.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders and activists led a procession on some roads in Mirpur 10.
Kazi Nasir, inspector (operations) of Uttara east zone, said the situation is under control. “We are checking the identity cards of students.”
On Sunday, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid directed the principals of Dhaka’s government and private colleges to convince their students to vacate city roads and return to their classes— at any cost.
Students of different schools and colleges staged demonstrations over the last eight days demanding safer roads and punishment for those responsible for a road accident on the city’s Airport Road that killed two students of the Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and College, on July 29.
