Kabir Humayun: Gen-eral students demanded resignation of Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, also the executive president of Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation, over his remarks after the deaths of the two college students at Dhaka’s Airport Road on July 29.
Several thousand students, including over a thousand of Dhaka University (DU), reiterated the remand at a blockade programme at Shahbagh in the morning.
They took to the streets protesting attacks on students by law enforcers and Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at Jigatola in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on Saturday.
Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and Dhaka Medical College (DMC) also participated in the demonstration.
The students demanded safe roads and justice for those killed in road accidents, including resignation of Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan.