Anti-discrimination Student Movement seeks designs for its logo from mass
The logo must reflect essence of July uprising; vision of a new Bangladesh, says the platform
The Anti-discrimination Student Movement has made a call for designs for its logo from the students and people who participated in the July uprising.
The platform issued a statement this morning (6 December) calling on the July protesters skilled in logo designing to send their designs.
"The Anti-discrimination Student Movement is a leading platform for the July uprising and the construction of a new Bangladesh. The logo must reflect the essence of the July uprising and the vision of a new Bangladesh," read the statement.
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It also asked those interested in sending the logo to its official email ID — [email protected] — by 15 December.
At the beginning of July, students and jobseekers started protesting in Dhaka and elsewhere after the High Court on 5 June cancelled a government directive that had abolished the quota system in public service jobs in October 2018.
To hold protests in an organised manner across the country, students formed the Anti-discrimination Student Movement on 1 July.
Seven days later, it announced a 65-member committee, comprising 23 coordinators and 42 co-coordinators, to make the movement against the reinstatement of the quota system a success. The platform then organised regular protests all across the country.
To quash the protests, the then Awami League government ordered police to launch crackdowns on the demonstrators which led to violence clashes and casualties, shut down the internet, and made numerous arrests including some of the coordinators throughout July.
Amid the situation, the Anti-discrimination Student Movement released a nine-point demand that included the resignation of the then home affairs minister and many others.
As the crackdown by police and Awami League supporters against the protesters continued and violent and fatal clashes led to nationwide curfew, these nine demands were reduced to one: the resignation of then prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
On 3 August, the students' movement expanded its reach by forming a 158-member coordination team with students from various educational institutions, of which 49 were coordinators and 109 were co-coordinators.
With the mass people expressing solidarity in light of the wanton violence carried out against them, the students also announced a long march to Dhaka on 5 August, demanding Hasina's resignation, urging the general people to join.
Forced to end her 15-year rule, Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country to India on 5 August as people from all walks of life joined the students in massive protests in Dhaka and elsewhere by breaking the curfew.
