Many students believe the three-point demand — to suspend the ongoing HSC and equivalent exams and for Education Minister Dr ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon to resign — is not reasonable. Many have also stated their opposition to suspending exams and granting an “auto-pass.” Students from the capital and various parts of the country said as much on Wednesday.
A student at Farmgate in the capital said: “Among the movement’s demands, the physics exam should have been pushed back a day or two. That demand alone is fair; beyond that, no demand is reasonable. Demanding the education minister’s resignation — that does not fall into the category of a reasonable demand. The education minister is new; he has to be given time to work. Then, later, one could speak to him. Getting him removed now is not right; that is not a reasonable demand.”
A student in Chattogram said to the protesters: “I sat my exams a year before them. We had to sit exams with seven creative questions. So I would say — you have suspended the exams in Chattogram. What is happening in other districts stays in other districts. Do not turn this in another direction. We have seen what happened in 2024, and before that what happened in 2018. For God’s sake, let the country stand up. The country’s situation is not good. You are young now, hot-blooded; you do not understand what politics is, what the economy is, what confidentiality is — you launch a movement over the smallest thing.”
A female student at Dhaka City College said: “Breaking buses is no solution. I will certainly not support this. There were ordinary people here, passengers; breaking buses is no solution. Perhaps some students who were involved in breaking the buses were worked up. But that does not mean all students are with them, that we will go and break buses. It is not that we will smash any bus we see anywhere.”
A female student in Chandpur said: “An auto-pass would definitely be bad. We do not want an auto-pass; we want the exams to continue the way they are being held.”
A female student beside her said: “Alhamdulillah, the exam went very well. The second part went much better than the first. If the exams go like this, one can hope, alhamdulillah, for a good result. If they suspend the exams, it is we who lose. Given the pace of our studies now, if it is suspended it will be hard for us to get our minds back into our studies afresh.”
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