Jatiya Chhatra Shakti’s Dhaka University unit staged a protest at the foot of the Raju Sculpture near TSC on August 3, denouncing gas and electricity shortages, higher fuel prices and rising costs of essential goods. Participants carried hurricane lamps and empty cooking pots as symbols of the crisis and accused the government of failing to control energy supply and commodity prices.

Unit president Tahmid Al Muddassir Chowdhury alleged that power shortages, unusually high electricity bills and gas disruptions were affecting households as well as industry and production. Organizing secretary Mohammad Sakib described the gas, power and commodity-price problems as artificial and emphasized controlling inflation. Protesters also chanted slogans during the gathering.

Vice-president Mohammad Abu Sayeed alleged renewed syndicate influence in the power sector and said prolonged gas shortages in Dhaka were causing wider disruption. The group demanded swift resolution of gas and electricity shortages, an end to abnormal power bills, controls on fuel prices, and essential-goods prices within public purchasing capacity. Chowdhury warned of lockouts and blockades at institutions under the Energy Ministry, including Titas, if the gas crisis was not resolved.