Unsuccessful 27th BCS candidates continue 'fast unto death'
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
The unsuccessful candidates of the controversial 27th BCS examinations continued their 'fast unto death' for the third day Monday in the city to press for the restoration of the first phase results, reports UNB.
More than 100 of the candidates, who came out successful in the first-phase results but later were disqualified in the second phase results, staged the hunger strike programme along with their parents and guardians at the Central Shaheed Minar.
The programme which began Saturday is part of a campaign to force the Public Service Commission (PSC) to restore the first-phase results.
In the evening Monday, eight fasting candidates and guardians including a woman candidate were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for treatment, said one protester M Mahfuzur Rahman.
He informed that a number of other fasting candidates and guardians were earlier given saline as their condition deteriorated.
Talking to the UNB, Mahfuzur Rahman criticized PSC chairman Dr Saadat Husain for what he said injustices done to the candidates.
On Sunday night, Prof Anu Muhammad of Jahangirnagar University went to the Central Shaheed Minar and expressed his solidarity with the fasting unsuccessful BCS candidates. "Government should take the necessary decision within 24 hours," he said.
Awami League Women Affairs secretary Dr Dipu Moni visited the hunger strikers at the Shaheed Minar Monday and expressed her solidarity with them.
Meanwhile, the successful candidates of 27th BCS in the 2nd phase results held a press conference at the National Press Club Monday and demanded their early appointments.
Of them, Alimul Imam said that they would organise a human chain Wednesday (Nov 5) in front of TSC at DU and hold a meeting of guardians Friday (Nov 7) at the foot of Aparajeyo Bangla on the DU campus.
More than 100 of the candidates, who came out successful in the first-phase results but later were disqualified in the second phase results, staged the hunger strike programme along with their parents and guardians at the Central Shaheed Minar.
The programme which began Saturday is part of a campaign to force the Public Service Commission (PSC) to restore the first-phase results.
In the evening Monday, eight fasting candidates and guardians including a woman candidate were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for treatment, said one protester M Mahfuzur Rahman.
He informed that a number of other fasting candidates and guardians were earlier given saline as their condition deteriorated.
Talking to the UNB, Mahfuzur Rahman criticized PSC chairman Dr Saadat Husain for what he said injustices done to the candidates.
On Sunday night, Prof Anu Muhammad of Jahangirnagar University went to the Central Shaheed Minar and expressed his solidarity with the fasting unsuccessful BCS candidates. "Government should take the necessary decision within 24 hours," he said.
Awami League Women Affairs secretary Dr Dipu Moni visited the hunger strikers at the Shaheed Minar Monday and expressed her solidarity with them.
Meanwhile, the successful candidates of 27th BCS in the 2nd phase results held a press conference at the National Press Club Monday and demanded their early appointments.
Of them, Alimul Imam said that they would organise a human chain Wednesday (Nov 5) in front of TSC at DU and hold a meeting of guardians Friday (Nov 7) at the foot of Aparajeyo Bangla on the DU campus.