Titumir students block road in front of college

The protesters say they are also preparing for a blockade in the Dhaka North City Corporation area on Monday afternoon

Students from Government Titumir College have once again blocked the road in front of the institution to demand that it be converted into a university.

They blocked off the road with bamboo poles around 12:30pm on Monday, the sixth day of a protest and hunger strike programme to push for their demands.

Mehedy Hasan, a student protester in his fourth year at the Department of History, said: “We have blocked the road in front of the campus around 11:30am on Monday. We are preparing to hold a blockade of the Dhaka North City, or a ‘Barasat Barricade to North City’ in the afternoon.”

He did not clarify what roads would be blocked off during the afternoon demonstration.

The students of Titumir College are boycotting their classes and exams to stage their shutdown programme.

The protesting students have demanded that Education Advisor Wahiduddin Mahmud retract his comments on the movement.

Following an ECNEC meeting on Sunday, Education Advisor Wahiduddin Mahmud told journalists: "The demand to upgrade Government Titumir College to a university has not been given special consideration."

The protesters also demanded that Law Advisor Asif Nazrul apologise publicly for “obstructing the formation” of a commission to oversee the university conversion process.