Hitting pause on the daylong demonstrations on Tuesday evening, BUP student Maisha Nur told reporters that their protests would continue Wednesday morning to press home their eight-point charter of demands. Also Read - Protesters demand capital punishment for drivers, bus torchedShe also urged the students of all schools, colleges and universities to come together for the movement and requested the guardians to allow their children to take part in it. Saying their protests were part of last year’s movement demanding safer roads, she called upon the students around the country to stage a sit-in protest in front of their own educational institutions on Wednesday to push the authorities to meet the demands. His death then sparked a massive daylong protest by the students of his university. They were later joined by students of other educational institutions.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 19, 2019 14:02 UTC