Students Block Shahbagh Protesting Attacks on Puja Mandaps

The students of Dhaka University blockaded the Shahbagh intersection in the capital on Monday morning, in protest at the attacks carried out on temples and puja mandaps across the country during and after Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Hindu community.

Shahbagh police station Officer-in-Charge Moudud Hawlader confirmed the matter to media.

Later, they marched with a procession towards the Shahbagh intersection, he said, adding that students of other residential halls also joined them.

Due to the blockade, huge traffic congestion occurred in the busy thoroughfare and also spread to adjacent areas, causing suffering to the commuters.

The country saw a number of communal attacks during and after the just concluded Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Hindu community, following an alleged desecration of the Holy Quran at a puja mandap in Cumilla on October 13.