Protesting BSc-diploma engineering students have rejected the government-formed committee set up to review the justification of their demands and announced a five-point charter of demands.

After clashing with police on Wednesday (August 27) afternoon, students placed their demands at the Hotel Intercontinental intersection in the afternoon.

At a press briefing, movement representative Jubair Ahmed placed the demands, saying, “Home Affairs Adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury must come before the protesters, apologise for the attack on engineering rights movement students, and be held accountable.”

Rejecting the committee, he added, “We consider the committee formed through the gazette notification as unfit to represent us. We reject it. The committee must be restructured immediately with the inclusion of university teacher representatives and partners of the engineering rights movement.”

He also demanded that their three-point proposal be accepted promptly and a gazette notification issued through an executive order, with three advisers—Mohammad Faozul Kabir Khan, Adilur Rahman and Syeda Rizwana Hasan—personally assuring this before the protesters.

The five-point declaration further includes government bearing the medical expenses of all injured students, ensuring the safety of all protesters during the movement, refraining from further police attacks on the “justified movement,” and arresting and dismissing police members involved in the assault.

Earlier, the government had formed an eight-member review committee, headed by Mohammad Faozul Kabir Khan, according to a gazette notification signed by Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Division’s committee branch Md Humayun Kabir.

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