Movement leaders declare daylong 'Bangla Blockade'

The anti-discrimination student movement leaders on July 9 last year declared a daylong blockade programme scheduled for July 10 to press home their one-point demand of reforming the quota in government jobs bringing down it up to five percent for backward section people, reports BSS.
Nahid Islam, a key coordinator of the anti-discrimination student movement, announced the programme at a press conference in front of Dhaka University (DU) Central Library around 6.30 pm.
"The blockade will start at 10:00 am and it will continue until sunsets on Wednesday (July 10). Both roads and railways will come under the 'Bangla Blockade' programme," he told journalists.
Students from across the country were urged to join the "Bangla Blockade" programme on the following day.
Nahid, now National Citizen Party (NCP) chief, said the central demonstration would take place at Dhaka University and Shahbagh.
Before announcing the new programme, the student protesters observed strikes in the educational institutions across the country, boycotting classes and exams on July 9, and carried out online and offline mass outreach campaigns.
Earlier, on July 8, Nahid said they would carry out online and offline mass outreach campaigns on July 9 while they would resume their nationwide 'Bangla Blockade' on July 10 with stiff programmes.
But the students of different universities and colleges continued the blockade across the country on July 9 too.