PM dismisses anti-quota protest as irrational, calls it sub-judice
Staff Correspondent
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday dismissed the movement against the quota system in the government jobs as irrational saying it's a sub-judice matter.
“I don’t think there is any rationality for what is being done today in the name of movement by wasting the study time,” she said.
The premier said this when the central leaders of Jubo Mohila League paid a courtesy call on her at Ganabhaban on the occasion of its 22nd founding anniversary.
Jubo Mohila League, an associate body of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL), was founded on July 6, 2002.
Referring to the recent judgment of the High Court against the abolishment of the quota system in the government jobs, Hasina said the it's not right to wage a movement against the judgment of the High Court and it is a sub-judice matter.
“If the High Court delivers judgment on an issue, it (any change) will have to come again from the High Court,” she said.
The PM said the government earlier abolished the quota system (in 2018) but different districts, remote areas and even women have been deprived of getting jobs in the last few years.
A large number of girls who used to get jobs due to the quota system in the past, did not get any opportunity in the past few years, she added.
