Staff Reporter :
The Student-Guardian Oikya Forum has demanded an independent body to investigate the medical and dental admission question papers leakage.
The demand was made from a press conference held at the National Press Club in the city on Saturday.
The students, seeking retake of medical and dental college admission tests, placed strong evidences regarding the question papers leakage before media.
They also placed their evidences before the media men through digital projector.
The forum members pledged that they would leave the demonstration if they fail to probe the question paper leakage allegations.
They said an admission seeker has to face 100 questions in the test. The question paper was leaked just before the examination night. We also found similarity at least 70 questions out of 100 between the original question paper and leaked one.
Besides, several teleconferences between the students and the mastermind of the question papers leakage are now in our hands. The students who face admission tests through the leakage question papers admitted in different medical colleges, they said.
The forum members also demanded an independent probe under the ‘Probe Commission Law of 1956’ to investigate the question paper leakage allegations.
They said the government like the Health Directorate fears to sit with the admission seekers and the guardians because they know that the question papers were leaked and they are responsible for that.
They alleged that the government was trying to hide the actual matter and protect the culprits involved in the leakage process. But the people know about the original information. So the government should cancel the admission test.
The forum leaders demanded open discussion from the government instead of indoor meeting. The forum wants to show all the documents to public, they said.
Aseef-bin-Taki on behalf of the admission seekers and Ashraf Kamal on behalf of the guardians spoke at the press conference.
Aseef-bin-Taki said, the admission seekers have been demonstrating since September 19 peacefully. They are demonstrating against evil forces and for their fundamental rights. But the police attacked on them for no reason.
Terming the movement of the students as logical, Aseef-bin-Taki said the students demanded cancellation of the admission test and retake because the question papers were leaked.
Ashraf Kamal said, the people of the country know what actually happened before the night of the admission test. There is no exit point of the government without cancellation of the test, he said.
Earlier in the morning, about two hundred students and guardians staged a sit-in demonstration at the Central Shaheed Minar and later gathered in front of the press club and formed a human chain for an hour at about 12:30pm.
