The CSP, led by the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), placed a 10-point demand at a press conference at Asad auditorium of city's Topkhana Road at noon.

The other points of the demand included proving neutrality of Prof Iajuddin Ahmed as chief adviser, arrest of the armed cadres of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) on DU campus and release of the CSP workers arrested during the BNP-Jamaat government in the last five years.

The combine also demanded assurance of co-existence of all student bodies on DU campus by November 8.

"If the authorities fail to meet our demand by the stipulated period, we will go for tougher actions," Mahmud Hasan Ripon, President of the BCL, told reporters at the press conference.

It also announced fresh programmes to meet their demand and in protest against the criminal activities of JCD-Shibir on DU campus and other educational institutions across the country.

CSP will hold a rally at 4:00pm on November 6 at Muktangan in the city and submit a memorandum to the chief adviser of the caretaker government on November 8 to press home their demand.

"Armed cadres of Chhatra Dal keep on carrying out attacks on our leaders and activists and still they are patrolling on DU campus with arms and lethal weapons," Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury Roton, general secretary of the BCL, alleged.

JSD BCL President Shariful Kabir Swapon, General Secretary Ali Hasan Tarun, Chhatra Moitree President Rafiqul Islam Sujon, Jatiya Chhatra Dhara President Bijoy Talukdar, Chhatra Samiti Convener Mustak Ahmed and Chhatra Andolon President Kanak Barua, among others, were present at the press conference.