Ruet students boycott classes demanding dormitory seats
The students of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) yesterday boycotted classes and examinations demanding seats in the university's residential halls.
Over two hundred students of the university's 10th batch also staged a sit-in on the university campus.
At the sit-in, the students demanded allocation of dormitory seats saying they feel insecure in the students' messes they are currently staying at.
The students claimed police would raid their messes to nab activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir and harass them in the process.
They also alleged the university authorities are not allocating seats although many seats are vacant.
Prof Sirajul Karim Chowdhury, vice chancellor of Ruet, told The Daily Star that he will take necessary measures to allocate dormitory seats to the students.
Contacted, SM Abdus Sobhan, officer-in-charge of Motihar Police Station, said they cannot identify Shibir activists in the beginning thus take students in for questioning and if those students have no affiliations with the Jamaat-e-Islami-backed student organisation then they are released.
Earlier on February 19, the students formed a human chain with the same demand.
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