Quota Reform Agitation: 'Postponed', not quite

Seeking quota reforms, demonstrators chanting slogans in the TSC area on the Dhaka University campus around 1:00pm yesterday. Photo: Amran Hossain/Fahd Mannan

A group of students defies announcement of one-month suspension following meeting with govt; authorities to 'examine' system; protesters leave Shahbagh to be back this morning

Within an hour after a leader of demonstrating students yesterday announced a one-month pause in their movement for quota reforms in public service recruitment, a group of protesters defied it and vowed to press on with their agitation.

Hasan Al Mamun, convener of Bangladesh Shadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad, a platform spearheading the protest, made the announcement following a meeting with representatives of the government and the ruling Awami League.

At the meeting, joined by a 20-member student delegation and held at the Secretariat, the government pledged to “examine the existing quota system” and inform all about the “outcome” by May 7.

But the group, which was agitating in TSC area of Dhaka University even during the two-hour talks that started at 4:00pm, rejected the government assurance.

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