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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will take responsibility for the families of the people killed in the recent nationwide violent student protest over quotas in government jobs, a top official of the ruling Awami League said .
“A committee has been formed for investigation and every culprit will be brought to book,” Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said while addressing a coordination meeting with the ward leaders of the Awami League.
As per PTI report, Bangladesh witnessed violent clashes between the police and mostly student protesters demanding an end to a controversial quota system that reserved 30 per cent of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s War of Independence in 1971.
The violence claimed dozens of lives, including that of students, with some media tally suggesting the toll to be as high as 184. Earlier this week, the government set up a judicial investigation into the violence with a High Court judge in the chair.
Quader said Prime Minister Hasina will take responsibility for the families of the people killed in the recent nationwide unrest.
Quader, also the transport minister, alleged that the Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami carried out the arson, centring the quota reform movement.
They wanted to turn the country into a pile of rubble and dreamt of going to power standing on bodies, Quader was quoted as saying by the state-run BSS news agency.
Quader said Awami League will stand beside the families of deceased and injured people.
