Demand for halls: 'BCL men' attack JnU students
Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League today allegedly attacked the agitating students of Jagannath University (JnU) during their demonstration for residential halls.
Witnesses said the agitated students gathered on the campus in the morning and brought out a procession there.
All of a sudden, a group of BCL's JnU unit men attacked the students and beat up some of them, they alleged.
Over the persistent accommodation crisis, the students began their demonstration on August 2 for new halls to be built on the spot where the Dhaka Central Jail was previously situated on Nazimuddin Road in old Dhaka.
On August 17, the students staged a sit-in in front of the Jatiya Press Club after their attempts to lay siege to the education ministry was foiled by police. They observed strike the next day.
The students tried to march to the Prime Minister's Office on Monday. But they were barred at Bangshal from where they declared that they would abstain from attending classes for next two days.
Currently, around 21,000 students are studying at JnU.
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