Sources said Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) CU unit under the banner of Sadharan Chhatra Chhatri Sangram Parishad had called for the strike only to spoil the celebration of Bangla new year.

The agitating students barricaded the university main gate barring all university vehicles from plying.

On Friday night they allegedly kidnapped the locomotive operator along with his two assistants of a shuttle train from the university railway station resulting in the suspension of rail communication with the university.

The organisers of the Prothom Alo-Daily Star Baishakhi Utshab 1413 postponed their programmes yesterday due to the student strike.

A fresh date for the programme would be announced after a meeting with the administration, said leaders of Agami, the organisation which organises the festival.

They alleged the ICS in the guise of general students enforced the strike only to spoil their festival.