The student protest which is also known as one of the biggest protests Bangladesh has ever seen in Dhaka City Road by students continue for its fifth day where the youth bring major changes to the city road.
The uniformed- students block the major roads of Dhaka city with the slogan “We want justice” while controlling the traffic in right lane, making emergency lane for ambulance, checking license of every vehicle including police and government officers, fixing the broken roads and forcing everyone to follow the safe traffic rule.
Earlier on the day, students continue their demonstrations for the fifth consecutive day blocking different city streets in demand of safe roads following the killing of two students on Dhaka Airport Road on Sunday last, causing immense sufferings to commuters.
Protesters are blaming the government for failing to enforce traffic laws, and an insensitive comment by Shajahan Khan, a government minister with ties to powerful transport unions, triggered fresh outrage.
Bangladesh shut down high schools across the country on Thursday as tens of thousands of students protested for a fifth straight day and authorities have pleaded with students to call off the protests that have near-paralysed Dhaka and spread beyond the capital, with vehicles vandalised and clashes with police in some parts.
On that day in the time of on-going protest police have allegedly swooped on the protesting students in city’s Mirpur 13 area, leaving several numbers of students injured which leads the students to run the protest one more day.
Yesterday Prime minister Shekh Hasina met the families of the deceased students and accept the demands of students where they are requesting safety and law correction of the punishment of transport accidents in Bangladesh.
Apart from this Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday promised that the government would launch a public transport safety campaign and urged the protesters to go home.
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Road Safety Demand Protest Continue: Dhaka is Shaken by Youth Spirit
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