DU Corresponden :
Awami League Joint Secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak, MP, on Friday told the protesting students that the gazette on cancelling the quota system in public service recruitment would be published after the return of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from Australia.
After a two-hour long meeting with the protesters at NAM Flat on Manik Mia Avenue in Dhaka, Bangladesh General Students’ Rights Protection Council Joint Convener Rashed Khan said that Nanak told them that the government was in the process of publishing the gazette notification.
‘The notification would be published after prime minister returns home,’ Rashed quoted Nanak telling them.
‘But we want the gazette notification by May 7,’ he said.
Hasina left Dhaka on Thursday afternoon for Australia on a three-day official visit at the invitation of her Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull.
Rashed said that the MP assured them that the police authorities would be directed to withdraw the cases filed during the quota reform agitation.
‘He [Nanak] told us that no protester across the country would be harassed,’ he said.
The meeting with the 15-member quota reformists took place after the protesters threatened to go for fresh movement if the government failed to publish the gazette notification on prime minister’s announcement of abolition of quota system by April.
In the face of countrywide protests, Hasina on April 11 announced in the Parliament that there would be no quota system in government jobs. The protesters postponed the programme following the prime minister’s announcement.
The protesters had been on the streets since February for five-point demands, including reduction of quota in public service recruitment to 10 per cent from the existing 56.
Awami League Joint Secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak, MP, on Friday told the protesting students that the gazette on cancelling the quota system in public service recruitment would be published after the return of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from Australia.
After a two-hour long meeting with the protesters at NAM Flat on Manik Mia Avenue in Dhaka, Bangladesh General Students’ Rights Protection Council Joint Convener Rashed Khan said that Nanak told them that the government was in the process of publishing the gazette notification.
‘The notification would be published after prime minister returns home,’ Rashed quoted Nanak telling them.
‘But we want the gazette notification by May 7,’ he said.
Hasina left Dhaka on Thursday afternoon for Australia on a three-day official visit at the invitation of her Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull.
Rashed said that the MP assured them that the police authorities would be directed to withdraw the cases filed during the quota reform agitation.
‘He [Nanak] told us that no protester across the country would be harassed,’ he said.
The meeting with the 15-member quota reformists took place after the protesters threatened to go for fresh movement if the government failed to publish the gazette notification on prime minister’s announcement of abolition of quota system by April.
In the face of countrywide protests, Hasina on April 11 announced in the Parliament that there would be no quota system in government jobs. The protesters postponed the programme following the prime minister’s announcement.
The protesters had been on the streets since February for five-point demands, including reduction of quota in public service recruitment to 10 per cent from the existing 56.
