BUET Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. Abu Borhan Mohammad Badruzzaman has called on the government to both investigate the recent police assault on engineering students and accept their justified demands.
While expressing solidarity with the ongoing student movement, the VC also appealed to students to return to their homes.
Meanwhile, students at Shahbagh rejected the government’s committee and announced a five-point demand in the afternoon. They declared they would continue their sit-in until advisors themselves arrive in person to negotiate. “Police action cannot suppress the movement,” the students said, demanding that those responsible for the assault be arrested and dismissed from service. Protesters also held a symbolic absentee funeral prayer, declaring that the engineering sector had been “pushed to its death.”