Students from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s student wing and left-leaning groups at Jahangirnagar University organized a broom procession on Sunday evening to protest remarks made on social media by Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman that were deemed derogatory toward working women. The procession began at the university’s central Shaheed Minar around 6:30 p.m., marched through key campus roads, and concluded at Bottola with a brief rally.

During the rally, participants dismissed claims that Dr. Rahman’s Twitter account had been hacked, calling it a staged excuse, and demanded a public apology for the offensive comments. Nadia Rahman Anwesha, general secretary of Jatiya Chhatra Shakti’s Jahangirnagar unit, said students took to the streets in response to attempts to demean women on social media. Other speakers, including students Faria Zaman Niki and Sohagi Samia, condemned the remarks and criticized the political tolerance of such statements.

The protestors declared that their broom procession marked only the beginning of continued demonstrations against those who support or echo such views on campus.