Vučić called on students to return to their desks, pupils to schools, and told teachers and professors to "earn their salaries..."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić today called on students to return to their university benches, pupils to their schools, and told teachers and professors to "earn their salaries, instead of expecting someone to pay them for something they haven't earned."

"I say this to professors too, because miners and everyone who works have to earn their salaries with their own blood," said Vučić, addressing citizens at a rally in Požarevac.

He stated that the "color revolution" in Serbia had failed.

Vučić and other government representatives have repeatedly called the mass protests over the demolition of the Novi Sad railway station canopy and the deaths of 15 people an attempt at a "colored revolution" and the overthrow of the state.

"Colored revolutions" are the name given to the protests that overthrew authoritarian regimes in former Soviet countries.

During most of the rally held on February 15, on the occasion of the celebration of Serbian Statehood Day in Sremska Mitrovica, Vučić spoke about his alleged fight against the color revolution, repeating that as long as he is alive, he will not allow "them to destroy Serbia" and that he will fight with all his might for Serbia, for Kosovo and Metohija and Vojvodina, which he said, "not in Serbia, because Vojvodina is Serbia."

Vučić repeated several times during that rally that the "color revolution failed" and that Serbia won.

On February 17, Vučić stated that the footage of students allegedly practicing how to fake a car attack on them was authentic.

Pink Television showed footage of students allegedly training on how to confront drivers, how to fall, and how to film an incident.

Vučić said that it was an authentic recording from Cetinjska Street in Kragujevac and that he knew it, and asked if the students thought that everyone in Kragujevac supported them and that no one would film them.

"This is the best indicator that this is a color revolution," the Serbian president said at the time.

On March 8, Vučić stated that he was preparing to write a book "on how he defeated the color revolution in Serbia" by Vidovdan, June 28.

"Now I am preparing to write a book by Vidovdan about how I defeated the colored revolution in Serbia, because there will be no revolution in Serbia," Vučić said at the time at a rally at the "Jezero" Sports Center in Kikinda, where a large banner "Vojvodina is Serbia" was hung.

Students leading protests in Serbia are demanding that the authorities be held accountable for the accident in Novi Sad and insist that they are not calling for a change of government. They are blocking more than 60 universities in cities across Serbia. A number of high schools have joined them.

The students' demands were supported by their professors, educators, lawyers, actors, farmers, and other citizens.

The first demand of the students in the blockade is to publish complete documentation on the reconstruction of the Novi Sad Railway Station, in order to determine responsibility for the accident.

They also demand that the attackers of students at the protests that followed the accident in Novi Sad be punished and that proceedings against the arrested protesters be suspended.

The government led by the Serbian Progressive Party and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić claim that the students' demands have been met. The students in the blockade deny this.

Tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest at the call of the students in the blockade.