Around 25 physically challenged students of Rajshahi University (RU) at a human chain programme demand that five per cent quota in class-I and class-II jobs should be maintained for candidates like them in the civil service recruitment system.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she was unable to understand the logic behind the quota reform movement.

A group of Supreme Court lawyers pledges to support the quota reformists in legal battle against the “false cases they have been implicated in”.

BNP today calls upon the government to talk to the quota reformists for a peaceful resolution to their demands and free their arrested leaders and activists.

To the students waging the movement against quota, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says it is not appropriate to boycott classes and examinations.

The parliamentary body on public administration opines for bringing “logical reform” to the existing quota system in civil service, upholding the spirit of the constitution.

Privately-run universities in Dhaka also staged demonstration in Dhaka today demanding reform in the quota system.