Dhaka: Admission seekers on Tuesday announced that they will continue their ongoing demonstration even during Eid, demanding cancellation of the results of the admission tests for MBBS and Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS), amid widespread allegations that the question papers were leaked the night before the exams.

‘We’ll continue our peaceful movement even on Eid holidays. We’ll stage peaceful gathering at Shaheed Minar at 10:00am every day till 26 September unless our demand is fulfilled,’ Mohaiminul Islam Neon, one of the organizers of the demonstration announced at a sit-in in the city’s Shahbagh area.

If the demand is not fulfilled by 26 September, we will go for harder programmes, including laying siege to the Health Ministry, he said.

Earlier in the morning, the admission seekers staged a sit-in at Shaheed Minar after failing to stage demonstrations in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the face of obstruction from police.

At about 12:30pm, the demonstrators brought out a procession from Shaheed Minar that marched towards Shahbagh. They staged a sit-in on the road in front of Central Public Library till 3:00pm.

After the sit-in programme, a four-member team of the demonstrators went to submit a memorandum to the Health Minister in this regard.

The personal assistant to the minister received the memorandum, a member of the team confirmed to UNB.

They chanted various slogans demanding immediate cancellation of the results of the admission tests of MBBS and BDS.

Meanwhile, students of Dhaka Medical College, Salimullah Medical College and Mymensingh Medical College and private medical colleges–Ibn Sina Medical College and Holy Family Medical College–expressed solidarity with the demonstrating admission seekers.

On 20 September, the results of MBBS and BDS admissions with a pass rate of 58.4 percent were published. The pass rate in 2014 was 34 percent.