Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s Secretary General Dr. Shafiqur Rahman has issued the following statement on 4^th August, 2018 urging the concerned authority to accept the justified demand of the protesting students and also to take due steps to bring them back to the classes.

“The teenage students have been taken to the street for last 7 days to press the demand of safe and secured road. Subsequently this movement is being spread over the country now.

The guardians and the people of all quarters have extended their solidarity with the demands of the protesting students. These demands have become the public demands now. Though the government is claiming that they have accepted and recognized the demands, but the agitating students cannot believe such verbal assurances. Now the government has to undertake some visible and effective steps to take the students in their confidence. But we have been observing with deep concern, even now the government is playing tricky game with these most popular issues. In one side, they are verbally accepting the student’s demands while on the other they are engaging the police forces and the ruling party thugs to subdue the protesting students. We are vehemently condemning such move of the government.

Attacks on students must be stopped immediately. History testifies that in all occasions, the students did not back home unless their demands were met. So the oppressive policy of the government against the students would be boomerang for them.

We are also observing that the protesting students are not creating any bar on mass transportation. Despite that the government backed transport owners and labor organizations have intentionally kept the transportation off to confiscate the entire nation. The countrymen want immediate end to this ill-tricks.

Finally I am calling upon the concerned authorities to meet the justified demand of the protesting students and to undertake some visible and effective steps for resolving the ongoing crisis.