DHAKA, 07 November 2021, (TON): Speakers at a meeting in the capital on Saturday placed six-point demands for the country’s Urdu speaking people, including quotas in higher education and government jobs.

They also demanded permanent rehabilitation of the Urdu-speaking people before eviction them.

Urdu Speaking People Youth and Student Movement organised the meeting, chaired by its president Imran Khan, at Shishu Kalyan Parishad Auditorium on Topkhana Road in Dhaka.

Sadaqat Khan Fakku, president of the Urdu Speaking Youth Rehabilitation Movement Bangladesh, said that the people were deprived of citizen rights after the Liberation War.

He also demanded quotas in higher education and government jobs considering the Urdu speaking people as backward people.

Senior lawyer and human rights activist Sadia Arman said that they heard few days ago that the prime minister had taken initiative to rehabilitate the Urdu-speaking people.

She added “we thought that Urdu speaking people’s prolonged sufferings would reduce but now we are hearing that a proceeding begins to send them to Pakistan.”