A 'complete shutdown' program is underway at all engineering universities in the country, including BUET, to demand three points. Students of engineering universities are continuing their protest by boycotting classes and exams on Thursday.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in the capital has a weekly holiday on Thursday, with no classes, but exams are held on all other days except Friday. All exams at BUET are closed today due to the shutdown program.

The students' platform Engineering Rights Movement announced a complete shutdown program at a press conference on Wednesday night. According to the announcement, all engineering universities in the country, including BUET, are scheduled to observe a shutdown program. In the morning, students did not come to any department of BUET. Officials and employees came to some departments. They said that students have been observing the shutdown program since yesterday, Wednesday.

BUET students have been holding a sit-in program at Shahbagh in the capital since Tuesday afternoon with three demands. The students blocked Shahbagh intersection as part of the pre-announced program around 11 am yesterday. At one stage, they started going towards Jamuna, the residence of the chief advisor, around 1:30 pm. The police stopped them in front of the Intercontinental Hotel. At that time, the police fired sound grenades, tear gas shells and used water cannons on them. Then, incidents of lathi-charge also occurred. Many students were injured in this.

After the police lathicharge, the students gathered again at Shahbagh around 5:30 pm. They started leaving Shahbagh intersection after 10:30 pm. In a press briefing in Shahbagh last night, Wali Ullah, president of the Engineering Rights Movement, said that a meeting will be held at the Council Hall of the Engineers Institution at 5:00 pm today. The next program will be announced there.

At that time, Zubair Ahmed, a fourth-year student at BUET, announced a complete shutdown of engineers in all engineering universities in the country.