2024-07-11 00:39:28
The anti-quota agitation caused severe traffic jams on the roads around Gulistan as the students occupied the zero point in Gulistan. Traffic has come to a standstill on almost all roads of the capital. Regular passengers have suffered greatly.
On Monday (July 8), students of Jagannath University, Kabi Nazrul and Suhrawardy College came to zero point in Gulistan with a procession and blocked the road. They stayed there for about two and a half to three hours. As a result, all types of traffic stopped
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A passenger going from Mirpur to Sadarghat said, I left at 12 o’clock that afternoon. Now it is 6:30 in the afternoon and now I could not reach Sadarghat.
It is to be noted that he stood at Zero Point in protest against the restoration of quota in the first and second class government jobs and a one-point demand for quota reform. Their demand is to abolish unreasonable and discriminatory quotas in all grades of government jobs and bring them to the minimum level based on fairness for the backward groups and those with special needs mentioned in the constitution and reform the quota system by passing a law in the parliament.