Shawdesh Desk:

Protesting students of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology on Saturday boycotted their classes and examinations and continued their protest for the second consecutive day after the ruling Awami League’s student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League staged a showdown on the campus early Friday.

They boycotted all classes and examinations for an indefinite period.

On Saturday they again upheld a six-point charter of demands.

On the day they brought out a procession on the BUET campus at about 10:00am.

At about 12:30pm they, under the banner of general students of BUET, announced that they would postpone their movement for the day as two of their fellows became sick due to heat.

‘It is not a movement for deferring our examinations but to keep politics out of our University,’ said one of the students.

They also said that they would resume the movement at 7:00am on Sunday and continue movement till their demands were fulfilled.

The protester’s first demand is the permanent expulsion of Imtiaz Rabbi, a student of civil engineering, from his dormitory and the university for organising the showdown on Friday.

They also demanded permanent expulsion of ANS Anas Ferdous Arman Nihal, Aniruddha Mazumder, Zahirul Islam and Sayem Mahmud for being involved in the incident.

The third demand is about getting an explanation from the BUET authorities as to how the outsiders had entered the campus and also an assurance about legal action to be taken against the outsiders.

The fourth demand is the resignation of the director of the Directorate of Students’ Welfare if their first two demands are not meet.

They also demanded security for them. The last demand asks for a written assurance that the protesters would not be harassed.

BUET vice-chancellor Professor Satya Prasad Majumder on Saturday afternoon said that they had formed a six-member probe committee.

The committee would submit its report by April 8, he said.

About the examinations on the day, the vice-chancellor said that they held the examinations but no student participated in the exams.