Staff Correspondent:

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has assigned three heavyweight leaders of Awami League to sit with the coordinators of the ongoing Anti-Discrimination Student Movement to calm the situation.

Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, assigned the responsibility to AL Presidium Member Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Joint General Secretaries MahbubulAlamHanif and AFM BahauddinNasim.

The PM’s instruction came following an emergency meeting at GonoBhaban on Friday night, meeting sources said.

In the meeting, Sheikh Hasina instructed to be “careful” and “tolerant towards the general students”.