Sust Students' Deadline
Accept demands by September 9 or face tougher agitation
Staff Correspondent, Sylhet
The students of Shahjalal Univer-sity of Science and Technology (Sust) yesterday staged a one-hour sit in at the local Shahid Minar and took out a procession in the city to press for immediate resumption of academic activities. After the sit in from 10 am to 11 am they paraded the streets from Chouhatta to Rikabi bazaar and returned to the Shahid Minar to hold a rally there. The speakers at the rally announced, a day-long token hunger strike at the Shahid Minar today It will start at 10 am and continue till 6 pm. They demanded immediate resumption of academic activities and trial of the killers of fellow student Mosharraf Hossain Shamim. Shamim died in police firing on May 14. They called upon the authorities to accept the demands by September 9, or face tougher agitation from September 10. Meanwhile, the Sust Teachers' Association president Dr Mostafa Hasan said yesterday there was no progress regarding the demands placed before the VC. The association's ultimatum ends today. The Association leaders handed over a memorandum to the VC Sunday afternoon. They urged the VC to accept 4-point demand in three days. The demands include promotion and upgradation of teachers in different departments, purchase of flat in the capital for using it as teachers' guest house, shifting of teachers from development head to revenue head. The opposition-backed students action committee yesterday morning took out a procession from the city's Madina Market area. But police stopped it near the BDR gate-III, about half a kilometer off the varsity gate. The processionists held a rally on the road and said the agitation would continue till the withdrawal of the 'corrupt' VC.
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