Candidates protesting the leak of the medical college admission test question will start a fast unto death at the capital's Central Shaheed Minar today.

They announced the strike on the 25th day of their demonstration yesterday, after their earlier programmes like marches, rallies, and exhibition failed to change the government's position.

The candidates demand a fresh admission test because, they said, the test questions were leaked before September 18, the exam day.

At a press briefing at the Shaheed Minar, Muhaiminul Islam Neon, a spokesperson of the protesters, said they would press on until the demands were met.

In the morning, around 70 students and guardians gathered at the memorial during heavy rains and chanted slogans in favour of their demands.

"We sought the prime minister's intervention... submitted a memorandum to her but yet to get any answer. So we have no other alternative to going for a hunger strike," Neon told The Daily Star.