Bangladesh
SUST Protest SUST students end hunger strike after seven days
Own Correspondent, Dhaka, January 26: Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) have ended their hunger strike demanding the resignation of the university's Vice Chancellor.
At 10:20 am on Wednesday, protesting students broke their fast by accepting water from Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and his wife. The agitating students were on hunger strike for last seven days. Earlier, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and his wife Prof. Dr. Yasmin Haque came to the campus to break the hunger strike of the students.
Dr. Zafar Iqbal and his wife arrived at the campus around 4 am on Wednesday (January 26). Arriving on campus, they told the students that they had a discussion at their home with a high-level delegation. They came home and promised to fulfill whatever you want and whatever you demand.
On January 13, students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology started agitation demanding three points, including the resignation of SUST's Begum Sirajunnesa Chowdhury Hall's provost committee. Later, the demand for the resignation of the Vice-Chancellor also came to the fore in the movement.
Later in the afternoon of January 16, the students blocked the Vice-Chancellor at the IICT building of the university demanding three points. Later, when the police rescued the Vice-Chancellor, there was a clash between the students and cops.
At that time, the police dispersed the students by charging sound grenades, lobbing tear gas shells and firing rubber bullets. Several students were injured in the tussle. Police filed a lawsuit against 300 'unidentified' students.
On January 19 afternoon, 23 students went on a hunger strike in front of the Vice Chancellor's residence demanding his resignation.
