Online Desk :  Rajshahi University (RU) students are staging demonstration on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway amid arin to press home their four-point demands, including the cancellation of the quota system in government jobs and the retention of merit-based recruitment circulars. Around 10:30am on Thursday, some students brought out a procession from Paris Road near the university. Several other from different halls also joined with them. And, later, they took position in front of the main gate of the university on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway.

Minhajul, a student of the Islamic Studies Department of the univercity, said, “We do not want the quota system in the country. Quota system does not evaluate actual merit. Let the student be evaluated through merit. Our movement is not only for us, this movement is for the next generation.” The demands include: formation of a commission to reform the quota system in government jobs based on the 2018 circular, those who have quota, can use it only once in their lifetime.