The rail communication between Dhaka and Mymensingh remained suspended for two hours Monday as students from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh railway for the third consecutive day as part of the “Bangla Blockade.”
The students, demanding the elimination of what they termed irrational and discriminatory quotas in government jobs, set up barricades at Jabbarer Mor around 1:30 pm, halting the Jamalpur Express from Dhaka and disrupting train services, UNB reports.
Train communication resumed at 3:10 pm after the students left the rail tracks.
Earlier, at 12:30 pm, students staged a protest procession on the campus. During the demonstration, they declared, “From today, we will uphold a single-point agenda: the elimination of irrational and discriminatory quotas in all grades of government jobs. The quota system must be reformed by passing a law in Parliament to ensure fairness for underprivileged and special-needs groups as outlined in the Constitution.”
The protesters vowed to continue the “Bangla Blockade” nationwide until their demand is met.
