, May 12 -- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Tuesday walked on foot from Dhaka University's Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban to the Prof Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium in the Faculty of Social Sciences, in an unprecedented moment in campus history.

The Prime Minister began walking shortly before 12:00pm after attending the inaugural session of a national workshop titled "Transforming Higher Education in Bangladesh: Roadmap to Sustainable Excellence," organised by the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh at the Senate Bhaban.

Despite an official motorcade being prepared outside the Senate Bhaban, Tarique Rahman chose to walk to the Social Sciences Faculty building near the Arts building (Kala Bhaban) to join an interact...