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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the people of the country to resist the agitators calling them ‘terrorists’.
She made the call after leaving a meeting of the National Committee on Security Affairs held at Ganabhaban on Sunday (August 4) amid the 'indefinite all-out non-cooperation movement' called Anti-discrimination Student Movement.
Prime Minister's Assistant Press Secretary ABM Sarwar-e-Alam Sarkar disclosed her call.
Quoting the prime minister, he said, “Those who are doing sabotage now are not students. They are terrorists.”
According to him, the head of the government urged the countrymen to resist “these terrorists with an iron fist.”
The meeting of the National Committee on Security Affairs began around 11:00 am and ended around 2:00 pm.
Members of the 27-member committee, including the home, information, law, finance, foreign, planning, industries and commerce ministers, cabinet secretary, principal secretary at PMO, army, navy and air force chiefs and other officials concerned, attended the meeting.
The organisers of Anti-discrimination Student Movement, who spearheaded the quota reform protests, began a countrywide non-cooperation movement on Sunday to protest the recent killings and press home their demand – resignation of the government.