To keep law and order, regulators have deployed riot police and the Border Guard Bangladesh military pressure on college campuses.
Later on Tuesday, the University Grants Commission issued an ultimatum for all institutions to close and for students to leave the buildings as soon as possible for security reasons. Additionally, colleges, universities, and different educational establishments were closed.
Individuals may hold festivities on Wednesday carrying graves in unity with those who lost their lives, according to Nahid Islam, the organizer of the anti-quota protests.
” Some have left the dorms out of concern due to attacks by functionaries of the student group ( the student wing of the ruling party )”, said a female student of Dhaka University, who asked not to be named for fear , of , punishment.
” However, many students remain, especially in the people’s hostels. Those of us who are now residing in the dormitories are no reluctant to leave.
Around midnight on Tuesday, police detained seven activists in Dhaka’s capital, including a former student wing leader, when they raided the main opposition’s headquarters, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ).
The attack was carried out after a vehicle was set on fire close to the BNP office, according to Harun Or Rashid, the mind of police’s detective branch. They also found some bottles of gasoline and 100 simplistic bombs during the operation.
The authorities planted the recovered products, according to Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the top shared secretary of the BNP, to undermine the anti-quota demonstrations.
The protests are Hasina’s government’s first major challenge since she won a third consecutive term in a BNP-boss boycott in January.
Experts attribute the unrest to sluggish employment growth in the private sector, making government jobs, which offer standard wage hikes and other privileges, extremely attractive.
Now, 56 per cent of federal jobs in Bangladesh are reserved under different restrictions, including 10 per share for people, 10 per share for people from poor districts, 5 per cent for aboriginal communities, and 1 per cent for people with disabilities.