JnU teachers, students start mass hunger strike

Teachers and students of Jagannath University (JnU) have started a mass hunger strike at the Kakrail intersection to press home their demands.

Teachers and former and current students of the university started a mass hunger strike at around 3:45pm. 

On behalf of JnU Oikko, a platform of students, teachers, and other stakeholders of Jagannath University, Mahtab Limon, general secretary of the Jagannath University Journalists’ Association, made the announcement at 3:00pm.

Chhatra Dal member secretary of the university Shamsul Arefin said, “We want to say to the Chief Adviser, don’t sleep, Come here. We want to see your message”.

“Our movement has reached a point where there is no turning back. We will begin our hunger strike at 3:30pm. We will not return without victory,” he said.

The four demands of the students are the introduction of a housing allowance for 70 percent of students from the 2025-26 fiscal year until residential facilities are ensured, approval of JnU's proposed FY26 budget without cuts, approval of the construction of a second campus at the next ECNEC meeting as a priority project, and the punishment of police personnel who attacked students and teachers on Wednesday.