Staff Reporter :About five hundred job seekers on Friday blocked Shahbagh intersection demanding increase of entry age to government jobs from 30 to 35 years. They also threatened of tough movement in case of the government’s refused to meet their demand. The job seekers under the banner of ‘Bangladesh General Students’ Council’ started gathering around the intersection at 4.35pm and started blocking from 5pm.But police forced them to leave the intersection and arrested several protesters. “The action was taken when the protesters defied the order to leave the venue,” police said. “We asked them to leave the intersection as it is a busy place and there are hospitals nearby. Moreover, the Ekushey Book Fair is running,” Officer-in-Charge of Shahbagh Police Station Abu Bakar Siddique said. Azizul Haque, a job seeker, told The New Nation that he was admitted in National University under 2002-03 session and did his Masters in 2013 due to session jam by which time he lost his age for government job. “I am now unable to apply for any government job. It will be helpful for me and thousands of students like me if the government accepts our demand,” he said.
