Sayeed Muhammad: Leaders of quota reform movement has given an ultimatum to the government for publishing within this month the gazette on abolishing the quota system in government job in line with the prime minister’s decision. If not so, they will wage a tougher movement from May, they warned at a press briefing on the Dhaka University campus yesterday, reports The Daily Star. They also reiterated their demand for withdrawal of all five cases filed during the quota reform movement, within the next seven days, urging the authorities concerned to find out the real culprits and punish them. According to them, innocent and general students are being harassed owing to the cases. The student leaders demanded security of the students on the campus and claimed that protesters in the countrywide universities are facing various kinds of harassment. Among other demands they raised is apology from a Bangla daily for publishing “biased news” against the movement. Rashed Khan, Nurulhaq Nur, Hasan Al Mamun, and Faruk Hossain, the four key organisers of the quota reform protests, were present at the press briefing. Earlier on April 18, the students issued a seven-day ultimatum for withdrawal of the cases. he five cases were filed with Shahbagh Police Station on April 11 by Dhaka University authorities and police against a huge number of unidentified people on charge of vandalism, arson and obstructing lawmen to perform their duty during demonstrations in Dhaka over quota reform in public service recruitment and in connection with the attack on DU VC’s residence. In the beginning of this month, the country witnessed a widespread movement of students of public and private universities, demanding reforms to the quota system. With the protest deepening, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on April 11 announced scrapping of the quota system.
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