Opposition holding 3cr students hostage: Nahid

The opposition parties were holding the future of the country's three crore students hostage and ruining the education system by enforcing frequent hartals, alleged Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday.
“The opposition parties and anti-liberation forces want to throw the new generation into darkness. They do not want our children to grow up as efficient citizens and that is why they are enforcing hartals one after another,” he said.
Nahid was addressing a discussion organised by Bangladesh Besharkari Shikkhha Protishthan Karmachari Federation in the capital's Azimpur Girls School and College.
He alleged that the opposition parties were calling shutdowns apparently to save the war criminals.
The shutdowns were not only hampering education of the 10 lakh HSC examinees but also hindering the country's economic growth, he said, adding that the opposition parties were destroying government efforts to bring order into the education system.
“Today's students are our future,” he said, urging all to be vocal to ensure undisrupted education lives for students.
The federation President Shahjahan Khan presided over the discussion where Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin MP, Education Secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education's former director general Prof Noman-ur-Rashid and Shikkhakh Karmachari Kalyan Trust Member Secretary Shahjahan Alam Saju also spoke.