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Barishal University students continued their movement for the third consecutive day on Wednesday to realise their one-point demand that vice-chancellor Professor Suchitra Sharmin be removed.

The students staged sit-in and protest programmes in front of the university’s administrative building at about 12:30pm to press home their demand.


They chanted slogans against the VC and sang protest songs there.

The students alleged that the VC had failed to meet their earlier 22-point demand, ignored calls for financial aid for a student who reportedly died due to lack of treatment, favoured cohorts of fascist on the campus, filed cases against students and allowed corruption in development projects.

Calling Sharmin the ‘worst VC in the university’s history,’ students said their movement would continue until she is removed from office.

The protesters warned that if their demands are not met they would lock the VC’s residence, cut its electricity supply and block road communication between the capital and the southern region of the country.

Students Sujoy Shuvo, Azmain Shuvo, and Shahidul Islam Shahed, among others, addressed the protest programme.