Students stage black badge protest defying rain

PBC News:  Students of various educational institutions have staged demonstration wearing black badges and wrapping black clothes around their faces in Dhaka’s Rampura area.

The students organized the programme on Monday noon in remembrance of students Nayeem Hasan and Mainuddin Islam who were killed in road accidents recently.

Nayeem Hasan, a student of Notre Dame College, was killed on November 24 when he was hit by a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation. Students of different colleges in Dhaka started agitation demanding safe roads following the road accident. Meanwhile, Mainuddin Islam, a student of Ekramunnesa School and College in Rampura, was killed after a bus ran over him at night crash on November 29. Since then, the students have been holding a programme on Rampura Bridge every day.

According to the pre-announced programme, the students took position on the west side of Rampura Bridge around 12:30 pm and continued the protest ignoring the rain.

Agitating students wore black badges and wrapped black clothes around their faces. They were also seen holding placards with various demands. They chanted slogans to press home their 11-point demand.

Shohagi Samia, who is leading the movement in Rampura, said that they are not giving any programme at present due to hostile weather, but if the weather is favorable, they will hold a bicycle rally from Ekramunnesa School and College to Notre Dame College.

Besides, they will also hold students-teachers rallies.