The agitating students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) returned the food and medicine taken for Vice Chancellor Professor Farid Uddin Ahmed.
On Monday (January 24) evening, the university's teacher representatives took food and emergency medicine for the confined vice-chancellor. However, the agitating students returned the food.
At that time SUST Proctor Associate Professor Alamgir Kabir, Assistant Proctor Assistant Professor Abu Hena Pahil, Student Adviser and Director of Instruction Professor Zahir Uddin Ahmed wanted to meet Vice Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed but the agitated students refused. Later they returned with food.
Earlier in the day, the agitated students also returned food brought by two councilors of Sylhet City Corporation.
Meanwhile, at a press conference at noon, the protesters said that if the Vice-Chancellor does not resign, all the protesting students will join the mass hunger strike at once.
Earlier, students set up a human wall on the street in front of the Vice-Chancellor's residence on Sunday afternoon. At around 8 pm, the protesters cut off the power supply to the Vice-Chancellor's residence. Since then, the Vice-Chancellor has been under siege. They are not allowing anyone except the police and media personnel to enter the residence of the VC.
Twenty-four students of SUST went on a hunger strike from 2.30 pm on Wednesday to demand the resignation of the VC. The father of one of them had a heart attack and he went home the day after the start of the fast. On Saturday night, 4 more students joined as part of the mass hunger strike. In all, 27 people are on hunger strike now.
Incidentally, on the night of January 13 hundreds of female students had started a movement protesting the alleged misconduct of Begum Sirajunnesa Chowdhury Hall Provost Jafrin Ahmed. Hundreds of female students in the hall started a movement demanding three points including her resignation. The BCL attacked the students of the hall on Saturday evening. On Sunday, the students seized the Vice-Chancellor. Upon receiving the news, the police baton charged, fired rubber bullets and released the VC. Fifty students were injured. Since then, there has been a demand for the resignation of the Vice-Chancellor.