DU students refuse to vacate residential halls
Campus Desk
Dhaka University students have rejected the university authorities' decision to vacate residential halls by 6:00pm today (Wednesday).
The university authorities announced of closing the university for an indefinite period and asked students to vacate halls after the university senate held a meeting with DU vice-chancellor Maksud Kamal in the chair.
Students have been staging protests demanding quota reforms in government jobs since July 1.
Six people were killed and scores were injured on Tuesday as students' protests against the job quota across the country turned deadly amid attacks by police and ruling party student organisation on protesters.
On Wednesday, DU students participated in processions for attending gayebana janaza and chanted slogans like "We will not leave as it is not anyone's father's property".
The students brought out processions marching towards the anti-terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture on the university campus in the presence of huge number of law enforcers.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion, the police and Border Guard Bangladesh are present at all entry gates of the university and mobile internet service has been shut down on the DU campus.
Hasnat Abdullah, co-coordinator of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, said that they would not leave the halls and rejected the university authorities' decision.
"We are not facing a situation under which we have to vacate the halls," he added.
