A small but determined group of students gathered at Dhaka University's TSC, marking the formal beginning of a new phase of demonstrations. Students at public universities across the country launched simultaneous protests and brought forward a four-point demands:

1. Reinstate the 2018 circular that abolished quotas in public service recruitment and introduce a merit-based system.
2. Establish a commission to review and eliminate unreasonable and discriminatory quotas in all grades of government jobs, with scope for considering only constitutionally recognised backward communities.
3. Ensure that the quota facility cannot be used more than once in recruitment exams, and that unfilled quota posts are filled based on merit.
4. Take effective measures to ensure a corruption-free, impartial, and merit-based bureaucracy.