Anti-quota protest irrational, the issue is sub-judice: PM
She said there is no logic to staging such a movement against the apex court verdict regarding the restoration of the quota system in the public services leaving the study.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (7 July) dismissed the ongoing student movements against the quota system in government jobs as irrational and said it is a sub-judice matter.
"I don't think there is any rationality for what is being done today in the name of movement while wasting study time," she said when the central leaders of Jubo Mohila League paid a courtesy call on her at Ganabhaban on the occasion of its 22nd founding anniversary.
Jubo Mohila League, an associate body of the ruling Awami League, was founded on 6 July 2002.
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Referring to the recent judgement of the High Court against the abolishment of the quota system in government jobs, PM Hasina said it's not right to wage a movement against the judgement of the High Court and it is a sub-judice matter.
"If the High Court delivers judgement on an issue, [any change] will have to come again from the High Court," she said.
The PM said the government earlier abolished the quota system (in 2018) but different districts, remote areas and even women have been deprived of getting jobs in the last few years.
A large number of girls, who used to get jobs due to the quota system in the past, did not get any opportunity in the past few years, she added.
Criticising the girls who are participating in the anti-quota movement, she said, "I have a question. It needs to be calculated how many of the girls who earlier joined the movement [in 2018] sat for the PSC examination and how many of them passed."
The girls should prove first that a greater number of them qualified the examinations, said the prime minister.
Talking about the universal pension scheme, she said the government introduced it for all in accordance with the Awami League's electoral manifesto.
The PM asked all politicians including the members of Jubo Mohila League to join the universal pension scheme for their safe old age.
Sheikh Hasina said Jubo Mohila League has been working to establish the rights of the country's people from the very beginning of its foundation.
She said Khaleda Zia was ousted from power on two occasions by the people for vote-rigging.
She asked the members of Jubo Mohila League to raise the misrules of the BNP regimes before the people as well as to play a more active role so that their misrules cannot return again in the country.
