Students, people block highway demanding adviser from northern region

Students and people from Rangpur also blocked the Dhaka-Rangpur highway on Wednesday noon, demanding several advisers from the northern region.

According to the witnesses, the blockade was enforced with a procession from Lalbagh to the city's Modern Mor area.

Traffic movement was disrupted for two hours after they went on the demonstration.

The protesters highlighted the lack of representatives in the interim government's advisory body from Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions. 

Speakers including Rangpur coordinators Imran Ahmed, Jamil Hossain, and Nahid Hasan Khandkar raised voice over the government's discrimination against the northern districts. 

They said that Abu Sayed, a student who lost his life during the quota reform movement, symbolises sacrifices made by the students from the northern part of the country.