It attained popularity as students of different universities in various parts of the country brought out processions of their own while demonstrating in solidarity with the main protest movement and pressing forward with similar demands.
[2] As a result, only 44 percent of the examinees are able to secure positions on the basis of merit, causing discontent among a large section of general students who say that they are deprived despite scoring higher than candidates who fall under any quota.
[6] On Thursday, 11 July 2013, the students, who gathered at Shahbagh intersection for the 2nd day demanding cancellation of the quota system in recruitment to government jobs, were forced to leave the place as police charged baton and lobbed teargas shells on them.
[14] Resuming the ongoing agitation over job reservations, a group of students held a demonstration in front of Dhaka University Central Library, demanding revocation of the quota system.
[15] Meanwhile, over 1,000 students of Rajshahi University (RU) demonstrating against the quota provision in public service recruitment blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway since Saturday morning.
The prime minister's public administration adviser HT Imam, on speaking with the media said,‘The government has no plans to reform the existing quota system in the civil service exams.
'[22] Dhaka University Proctor Amzad Ali flanked by ruling party Chhatra League men,[7] said, “When they began demonstration yesterday (Wednesday), we were sympathetic to their demand, but today (Thursday) what they are doing indicates that some other forces, maybe from Jamaat-Shibir, have infiltrated them and doing the damage working from inside.
These kind of activities are quite unacceptable.” [23] Condemning the violence on general students and expressing support with the demands of the anti-quota demonstrators, opposition party BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in a statement.“The government has become so desperate that it does not hesitate to let loose police and Jubo League and Chhatra League cadres to attack students instead of taking their justified demand into consideration,”[24][25] An organization called 'Amra Muktijoddhar Sontan' on Friday took stance against the anti-quota protests when it claimed that the anti quota movement was being influenced by Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chatra Shibir.
“These 46,250 candidates include the 12,033 whom we announced as successful in our previous list (earlier published on Tuesday, 9th of July),” said PSC Exam Controller (cadre) AYM Nesar Uddin.
“We’ve the pictures, we’ll place them before the PSC before the viva-voce examinations so that these notorious elements can’t get government jobs,” she said in her introductory speech at the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) meeting at her official residence Ganobhaban.