Quota protests across country Sunday

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Quota protesters demanding gazette notification in line with the prime minister's pledge, will hold demonstration on Dhaka University campus on Sunday.

They said there will be no classes and examinations at all universities across the country till 1:00pm on Sunday as part of their demonstration.

Leaders of Sadharan Chhatra Odhikar Songrokkhon Parishad (General Students Rights Protection Council), the platform that initiated the demonstration for quota reforms in public services, announced the programme at a press conference in front of the central library of Dhaka University on Saturday.

"The demonstrators are being harrassed. The police personnel are trying to arrest them in Cumilla and Rangpur. The students will not sit idle if such attempts continue," the council's convenor Hasan Al Mamun said.

He demanded release of the demonstrators who were arrested and condemned terrorist attacks on protesters.

The terrorists allegedly attacked the home of the council's joint convenor Jasim Uddin and roughed up his family members.

"We will not leave the streets until the gazette notification (abolising quota system) is issued," said the council's joint convenor Faruk Hassan.

At the height of quota protests, prime minister Sheikh Hasina announced in parliament on 11 April that there would be no quota from now on.

The public administration ministry has recently sent a proposal to the prime minister, to constitute a committee for recommending measures on whether quota system would be abolished or amended.