Sylhet Bureau :
Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) started an indefinite hunger strike on Wednesday demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) Professor Farid Uddin Ahmed and withdrawal of police case against them.
Earlier the students brought out a protest rally on the campus and 24 of them went on hunger strike at 3 pm in front of the VC’s residence.
The students had previously announced the hunger strike and sent the VC an ultimatum to resign before noon.
The students had previously announced the hunger strike and sent the VC an ultimatum to resign before noon.
The student protests on the campus began Thursday (13 January) last week as the female students of Begum Sirajunnesa Chowdhury Hall protested “abuses by the hall provost”. Other SUST students joined the demonstration after alleged Chhatra League attacks on the female students.
The situation took a new turn Sunday (16 January) as police charged batons, lobbed tear gas canisters, fired rubber bullets, and used sound grenades to disperse the students who confined the VC in his office.
The police attack left at least 50 students and teachers injured, said the protesting students. Subsequently, the university authorities suspended all classes and examinations indefinitely and ordered the students to leave the campus by 16 January noon. Rejecting the order, the agitated students went on protest.
