DHAKA, Jan 28, 2025 (BSS) – The students of seven colleges who were waging campaign today lifted their 24-hour ultimatum for fulfilling their six-point demand after a meeting with advisers of the home and information & broadcasting ministries. 

   “We have withdrawn our 24-hour ultimatum after getting assurances for fulfilling our six-point demands,” a spokesman of the students told reporters emerging from the meeting at the Home Ministry inside Bangladesh Secretariat here.

   Mainul Islam, a Dhaka College student, said that the government showed their positive attitude to their demands and met several of those by now.

   He said the college students also called off their programme to seize New Market Police Station and debar Dhaka University (DU) buses from plying on the streets of the capital to press home their demands.

   Mainul said in lone with their demands the authorities already cancelled the seven colleges’ affiliations with the DU and opened the city corporation roads for all inside DU campus.

   Home Affairs Adviser retired lieutenant general Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury and Information adviser Nasid Islam’s meeting with the students continued for some 90 minutes starting at 1.30 PM.

  Special Assistant to Chief Adviser, equivalent to state minister on home ministry Md Khuda Baksh Chowdhury also joined the meeting when a three-member delegation represented the college students, two of them from Dhaka College and one from Eden Mohila College.

   “We have discussed about their demands and problems in details in the meeting,” the home affairs adviser later told the newsmen.

   According to officials the student delegation demanded immediate legal action against the police personnel and withdrawal of officer-in-charge of New Market Police Station for the attack on Dhaka College student Rakib and the government took three days for investigating the complaints.

   They also demanded punishment of DU students who allegedly used abusive words against the female college students and resignation of a DU pro-vice chancellor.
 
   A clash between the students of seven colleges and DU erupted at around 11:00 pm on Sunday at the capital's Nilkhet area and continued until late at night.

   Police fired sound grenades, tear gas canisters, and rubber bullets to control the situation amid repeated chases and counter chases between feuding students.

   At one point, authorities called out four platoons of paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to the scene to control the situation along with police.