Students of BUET refrained from all formal academic activities on Sunday even though they did not continue their demonstrations for the third consecutive over the sudden activities of BCL to revive its position within the campus. 

The university authorities banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) along with all other student fronts on its campus in October 2019 following the brutal killing of BUET student Abrar Fahad by leaders from the ruling party's student wing earlier in the month.

The university's general students were expected to hold a press conference at 3pm Sunday to announce their next course of actions against a potential BCL revival. They did not take part in a sit-in planned Sunday morning at the Central Shaheed MInar due to "unspecified circumstances." The venue was picked by BCL leaders for staging their own protest demanding resumption of student politics at BUET.

It is not clear whether the BCL protest at the Shaheed Minar was planned to challenge presence of the apolitical BUET students there.

Students took to the streets at BUET on Friday and Saturday after BCL leaders re-entered the campus in a suprise move on Thursday midnight, signalling they were on course to revive political activities at the elite public university.

BUET Vice-Chancellor Professor Satya Prasad Majumder has condemned the trespass by BCL leaders as unlawful and has assured that those who assisted the entry would be punished. However, he has asked for adequate time to identify the trespassers and their supporters within BUET. BUET authorities have formed a six-member committee to probe the midnight BCL activities.

The administration has already cancelled the residential seat of university student Imtiaz Hossain Abir. Imtiaz is a member of BCL central committee, and students demand a permanent ban on his studentship, saying the current measure is not enough. Students demand expulsion of five more students allegedly involved in BCL's midnight activities as well as the removal of Directorate of Students' Welfare chief Professor Mizanur Rahman from his post due to his failure to check the 28 March incident.

On Sunday, BCL activities form different colleges and universities of Dhaka city staged a demonstration at the Central Shaheed Minar. Among other issues, they called for revocation of the ban on Imtiaz. The monument is very close to the BUET campus, and BCL leaders used the proximity to send their message to students of the engineering university.