Dhaka, April 20 -- The Karigari Chhatra Andolan, Bangladesh (Technical Students' Movement, Bangladesh) is holding simultaneous rallies involving students of polytechnic institutes across the country to push for a six-point list of demands.

The Dhaka rally began at the road next to Agargaon around noon on Sunday.

The protestors are pushing for a number of demands, including the dismissal of the High Court verdict promoting junior instructors to the post of craft instructors.

Md Mashfiq Islam Dewan, a representative of the student protest platform and a student at Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, said: "I want to tell every brother engineer with a diploma and every brother technical student - we have not forgotten the movement of '87, we hav...