The situation is getting easier, Nepalis are all safe: Nepali Ambassador to Bangladesh Bhandari

Due to the order of the court last June, the protest movement that started last week was canceled by the decision of the court two days ago.

The government has opened internet service in certain places and the curfew has been eased. With the Supreme Court correcting the previous order regarding the reservation and quota system, the movement has turned into stone. The movement has come to a head after the court of Bangladesh ordered that 93 percent of the government jobs will be through open competition. Sheikh Hasina government of Bangladesh has also accepted the decision.

The protest against the reservation in government jobs given to the children of people active in the freedom movement of Bangladesh has started for the past one week. The movement turned violent. Bangladesh seceded from Pakistan in 1971 after the freedom struggle of 'Mukti Bahini'. The students of the university had been rallying at various places for a few days against the reservation system. According to which, 30 percent reservation and quota system in government jobs were being given to the families of the martyrs who fought in the freedom struggle. Which was canceled in 2018 by the Hasina government. But last June, the problem became after the Supreme Court decided about it.

According to the newspaper Daily Sun of Bangladesh, the 7-hour curfew has been lifted on Wednesday and government offices have been told to reopen. During the movement, more than 150 people have died in the country, including the two main cities of Dhaka and Chittagong, and more than 1600 have been arrested. Although the agitation about the quota system and reservation has ended, the agitators still demand action against the home minister, the police and other parties who suppress the agitation and kill the people. But Prime Minister Hasina has not taken any action. She became the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for the first time in 1996, then she came to the leadership in 2009. Now he is running the government in Bangladesh in a dictatorial style.

'Nepalese are all safe'

Nepali ambassador to Bangladesh Ghanshyam Bhandari is busy trying to understand and facilitate the situation of Nepali students and others in Bangladesh due to the protests raging in Bangladesh for a week. According to him, the situation there is getting easier by Wednesday. Talking to Kantipur, Bhandari said, "About 3,000 Nepali students were studying in Bangladesh. About 1400 people have returned to Nepal by air and road. Other Nepali students are in the hostel while others are safe.'

He also mentioned that he is in contact with Nepalis. Ambassador Bhandari mentioned that the students may return to Nepal as there is no condition to start studies for some time. But now the situation is normal. Nepalis are all safe. We are in regular contact," he said.

After the problem in Bangladesh, the Nepali Embassy in Dhaka and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kathmandu issued a statement asking the Nepali students there not to go out except for essential work. In addition, it also made it easier to come to Nepal.