Students and job-seekers, who enforced the “Bangla Blockade” programme for the second consecutive day on Monday placing four demands, including the cancellation of the quota system in government jobs, lifted the blockade after four hours.
Traffic through the Shahbagh intersection as the demonstrators lifted the block at 8:35 pm on Monday.
However, they will not continue the blockade on Tuesday but announced to observe mass communication Tuesday along with boycotting classes and exams and student strike.
They have a plan to resume the blockade on Wednesday. But the programme will be announced on Tuesday.
The High Court on 5 June ordered the government to retain the 30% freedom fighter quota in government jobs.
It also declared illegal the circular issued on 4 October 2018 cancelling the quota system.
The quota system was introduced through an executive order in 1972 and was amended several times.
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