Students of Rajshahi College on the present time (8 December) staged an illustration protesting the dependent quota in admissions by showing ‘purple playing cards’.
The Anti-Discrimination Student Gallop held the programme on Paris Freeway of the university at around 3pm. About 150 college students from varied departments and institutes of the university participated.
The college students raised slogans reminiscent of “Quota or Merit? Merit Merit”, “Bury the quota machine”, “We are in a position to fight in opposition to dependent quota together”, “Compromise or death? death, death”, ‘Who’re you? Who am I? Meritorious, Meritorious”.
Talking on the programme, Golam Kibria Mohammad Meshkat Chowdhury, central coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Gallop, stated, “The pass imprint within the university admission test is 40. A teacher’s son used to be admitted underneath the dependent quota after getting 19.50. We have to abolish this methodology.”
The protesters also identified as for an commence debate with teachers on the rationality of dependent quota on the university’s Shaheed Minar Mukta Mancha the next day.
Salauddin Ammar, regarded as one of the coordinators of Anti-Discrimination Student Gallop at RU, stated, “This day, we confirmed purple playing cards to the dependent quota. In the occasion that they [teachers] can argue in favour of dependent quota within the next day’s debate, then we, the unheard of college students, will web the dependent quota. And within the occasion that they’ll now not describe an argument, then the quota will might perchance perchance perchance simply serene be declared cancelled.”
Nasheed Muntasim Smriti, a pupil of the 2023-24 session of the Department of Public Administration, stated, “Many admission seekers are now not getting their desired topics even after retaining positions within 1,000. However the dependent quota holders are getting admission even from 4,000-6,000 positions because of the their quota.”
Earlier, on 14 November, the university administration issued a notification conserving a 3% dependent quota within the RU admission test. That evening, some college students went on a hunger strike to death annoying the cancellation of this quota.
After about 18 hours, they broke the hunger strike on the peace of mind of the vice chancellor. Later, a 20-member quota evaluation committee used to be formed with Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Predominant Uddin as the chairman.
