, May 5 -- Barishal University students on Monday staged a protest on its campus demanding the resignation of its Vice-Chancellor Dr Shuchita Sharmin.

The students staged a sit-in and held a rally in front of the administrative building before bringing out a protest procession in the afternoon.

Wahidur Rahman and Mainul Islam from the Law Department and Shahedul Zaman from the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department, among others, addressed the rally.

Barishal University students stage protest, block highway for 1hr

They said although the students had previously demonstrated with a 22-point demand, the Vice-Chancellor failed to meet those demands.

Instead, they alleged, she tried to suppress the movement by filing cases aga...