Rajshahi College students continued their agitation for the third day on Saturday, demanding cancellation of the decision of increasing hostel seat rent.
About one hundred students brought out a procession from the main entrance of the college at around 11.30am on the day and, after parading major points of the college campus, held a rally in front the Shaheed Minar of the college.
Speakers at the rally said they had been paying Tk 3000 seat rent for an academic year but now the authorities were charging the same amount for every calendar year, forcing the students to pay six to nine thousand taka more to complete graduation, taking into account the session jam.
Speakers at the rally demanded that the new decision should be cancelled otherwise they would wage a tough movement.
Meanwhile the college authorities alleged that some agitated female students of Rajshahi College Mohial Hostel vandalised the portraits of the founder president of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, in the hostel office room.
The female students, on contrary, said the authorities themselves had broken the photo frames and brought the allegation to the students to malign their protest programmes.
Meanwhile, the Mohila Hostel superintendent, Ashraful Islam, resigned over the Friday night agitation. He alleged that the female students had vandalised portraits.
When contacted, the college principal, Ali Reza Abdul Mohammod Mazid, expressed his sorrow over the incident.
He, however, said that the demand of general students would be considered.
Source : New Age
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