Regardless of the Supreme Court docket lowering quotas in authorities jobs, pupil protesters is not going to cease.
After weeks of huge unrest in Bangladesh, the Supreme Court docket has modified the controversial authorities job quota system.
It considerably reduces the proportion of public sector jobs reserved for veterans’ households.
However regardless of the ruling, the protests seem removed from over. Initially student-led, it grew to incorporate individuals pissed off by rising inflation and excessive meals costs.
Dozens of pupil leaders, activists and opposition figures had been arrested.
With troopers taking to the streets, curfews throughout the nation and communications blackouts, calls have grown for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to be held accountable.
So will quota reform be sufficient to revive calm?
host:
Muhammad Jamjum
Friends:
Mubashar Hasan – Political Analyst and Postdoctoral Researcher on the College of Oslo
Zaman Ashraf – Bangladeshi activist working with Asian Human Rights Fee
Sreeradha Datta – Professor at Jindal College of Worldwide Affairs, whose analysis focuses on India-Bangladesh relations
