Students movement turns into one point demand

Thousands of demonstrators have now come up with their one-point demand for the resignation of the Awami League-led government.

Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the Anti-discrimination Students’ Movement, announced at a massive rally held at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Saturday afternoon. He said the prime minister and her cabinet members must resign immediately accepting the students’ demand.

He added that an all-out non-cooperation movement would continue from Sunday to realize their sole demand.

Earlier in the day, hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life congregated around the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka to express solidarity with students protesting against the killings by attacking their peaceful movement and to press home their nine-point charter of demands.

They chanted various slogans including the demand for justice for those who were killed in the quota reform movement.

On Saturday noon, students blocked roads at the Science Lab intersection, proceeding through Nilkhet and the Dhaka University campus before gathering at the Central Shaheed Minar, the spot that already turned into a sea of people.

With time, more protesters marched towards the Shaheed Minar with demonstrators blocking various roads.