Retain 30pc FF quota in government job

Children of freedom fighters on Tuesday put forward a six-point demand, including retaining the 30 per cent quota privileges for them in government jobs, reports UNB.

They made the demand at a human chain formed in front of the National Museum at Shahbagh in the city.

The Dhaka University (DU) unit of Muktijoddha Sangsad Santan Command, a platform of freedom fighters' children, arranged the human chain.

The other demands include enacting family protection law and ensuring constitutional recognition of freedom fighters' families, expelling the anti-liberation forces and their children from job and revoking their citizenship, cancelling the recommendations of the quota review committee to abolish all quotas, meting out exemplary punishment to those attacked the residence of Dhaka University Vice-chancellor and those made derogatory comments about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina and the Liberation War in social media.

Criticising the quota reform body for recommending abolition of the quota system, Prof AKM Jamal Uddin of DU Sociology department said, "We achieved our independence for the sacrifice of our freedom fighters. The recommendation for scrapping the freedom fighter quota in public service is contrary to the Liberation War spirit. We hope the government will cancel the recommendation and retain the freedom fighter quota."

After the human chain, a five-member delegation of the platform went to the Prime Minister's Office and submitted their demands to the Prime Minister.