The private university students of Bangladesh, who have been pressing the demand for withdrawal of a government-imposed 7.5 per cent VAT on tuition fees, will continue their agitations on Monday. The announcement came at the end of their daylong demonstrations on the streets on Sunday evening. Their protests choking the major streets stifled traffic in Dhaka and sparked huge troubles for commuters - much like Thursday. Demonstrations throughout Sunday at the city’s Uttara and Abdullahpur threw traffic out of gear on the street that connects the highways to Gazipur, Tangail and Mymensingh. Students of IUBAT, Uttara University and the BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology (BUFT) marched and staged sit-in in those areas. BUFT student Md Samir Saklain in the evening announced the end of their protests for the day and asked the students to gather at the same spot at 9am Monday. “The movement will continue until the matter of VAT withdrawal is resolved through discussion,” he said.
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