The demonstrations in Bangladesh against the quota system for government jobs turned violent, resulting in the deaths of six individuals.
Amidst a statewide walkout against the government’s job quota system, Indian nationals living in Bangladesh have been asked to stay indoors and limit their movement.
Students in Bangladesh resisted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s offer of amnesty on Thursday, pledging to carry on their statewide protests against civil service hiring practices and demanding justice for the six people who were slain during the demonstrations.
“We want to proceed with our plans for a total shutdown. “All businesses will stay closed,” Nahid Islam, the protest coordinator, told Reuters.
Ambulance services will be the only allowed mode of transportation, and only hospitals and emergency services will continue to operate.”
Since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won a fourth consecutive term in January in an election that the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) boycotted, the protests represent her government’s first serious challenge.
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Indian nationals living in Bangladesh were advised to contact the High Commission and the Assistant High Commissions at the 24-hour emergency lines in case of any urgency or need for help.
Demands to abolish a lucrative government job quota system, which opponents claim unfairly benefits members of Bangladesh’s ruling party by reserving positions for particular groups, such as descendants of those who fought in the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, are at the center of the protests.
She said that the government’s appeal against a High Court decision ordering the reinstatement of the 30% reservation for families of those who fought in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan will be heard by the Supreme Court on August 7.
