The students of Bangladesh Agricultural University continued their protests for the fourth day running on Wednesday by blocking some administrative offices of the university, following an alleged attack on them on August 31.
Earlier on the day, they decided to postpone their protest after assurances from the authorities to withdraw the hall evacuation notice and resume academic activities within a week.
But a syndicate meeting scheduled for the day to implement the notice withdrawal decision was not held, prompting the students to continue with their protests.聽
They demanded an apology from the vice-chancellor, resignation of the proctorial body and action against outsiders and some teachers for the August 31 attack.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Mymensingh reported that a five-hour-long meeting was held between the student representatives and a teachers鈥� committee starting from at about 7:00pm on Tuesday with vice-chancellor Professor AK Fazlul Haque Bhuiyan taking part virtually.
After the meeting, student affairs adviser and committee head Professor Shahidul Haque said that at the meeting a primary decision was reached about allowing the students to stay at the halls.
At the time the professor spoke about scheduling a syndicate meeting to be held on Wednesday to withdraw the hall evacuation notice and resume academic activities, which, however, was not held.
AHM Himel, a student representative, told 抖阴精品 after the meeting that they postponed the movement for the time being.
If the authorities failed to meet their demand the protests would resume, he said.
On Wednesday morning a section of students locked the offices of the treasurer and accounts section.
Confirming the news, Professor Shahidul Haque said that the students later unlocked the offices by 12:00 noon.
They tried to collect written demands from the students throughout Wednesday before holding the syndicate meeting, he said.
鈥楩or that reason the syndicate meeting did not take place,鈥� the professor said, adding that he did not know when the meeting would be held.聽
The ongoing student protest deepened from August 31 when they confined over 250 teachers, the vice-chancellor among them, for about eight hours, demanding a degree combining two faculties, prompting the university authorities to shut down the institution for an indefinite period and issuing a hall evacuation notice.
The teachers got free from confinement after someone had unlocked the gate of the building where they were held, when outsiders allegedly attacked the protesting students, triggering a clash.
Defying the order to vacate halls by September 1, the students continued protests pressing for a six-point demand.