Students started gathering in front of the Raju sculpture at TSC around 12:20pm today to hold a rally protesting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina`s comments during yesterday`s speech.
Students from different halls of Dhaka University and affiliated colleges started coming to the venue in procession.
They chanted slogans such as "Tumi Noi Ami Noi, Razakar Razakar
" and "Quota na Medha, Medha Medha ".Last night, hundreds of students from several public universities, including Dhaka University, took to the streets to protest what they said was a "disparaging comment" by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina earlier in the evening.
The protesters, who have been staging demonstrations across the country demanding reformation of the quota system for the last two weeks, brought out the processions on their respective campuses around 11:00pm.
The protests last night started hours after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina`s press conference at Gono Bhaban yesterday.
In response to a journalist`s question, Hasina said, "Why is there so much resentment against the Liberation War and the freedom fighters? If the grandchildren of the freedom fighters don`t get quotas, then should the grandchildren of razakars get quotas? That is my question."
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