Staff Reporter:
A six-member delegation from the three associate bodies of the BNP— Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, Swechchasebak Dal, and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD)— submitted a memorandum to the Indian High Commission yesterday to register their protests against the recent anti-Bangladesh incidents in India.
They went to the Indian High Commission in Baridhara, Dhaka, where they handed over the memoran-dum to an official of the Indian mission
The delegation consisted of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal central president Monayem Munna, general secretary Nurul Islam Nayan, Jatiyatabadi Swechchasebak Dal president SM Jilani, general secretary Rajib Ahsan, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal president Rakibul Islam Rakib, and general secretary Nasir Uddin Nasir.
Earlier, police halted a protest march arranged by three associate bodies of BNP towards the Indian mis-sion near Rampura Bridge in the capital for the sake of maintaining law and order.
When the march reached the bridge from Nayapaltan around 12:35 pm, a large number of police blocked the way with barricades and urged the leaders of the three organisations to cooperate.
Later, the six-member delegation of the protesters was allowed to go to the Indian High Commission to submit a memorandum.
The three BNP associate bodies began their road march to protest the attack on the Bangladesh mission in Agartala and the desecration of the country’s national flag.
The programme was also intended to register protests against what the party describes as an Indian plot to incite communal riots in Bangladesh.
Thousands of leaders and activists from the three BNP associate bodies formally began the march from the party’s Nayapaltan central office at 11:30am.
Before launching the march, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, top leaders from the three organisations, also delivered brief speeches, condemning the Indian ruling party and media for attempting to disrupt religious harmony in Bangladesh through false and misleading campaigns.
Rizvi alleged that what the Indian ruling party is currently doing to bring Sheikh Hasina back to Bangla-desh is nothing but direct aggression.
“You (Indian govt) do not like the people of Bangladesh. You do not respect the sovereignty and inde-pendence of Bangladesh,” he said in a brief speech before launching a protest march towards the Indian High Commission in Dhaka from Nayapaltan.
Rizvi said Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh and took refuge in India in the face of a strong mass uprising. “What the ruling party of India is doing to bring Sheikh Hasina back is nothing but direct aggression in the language of political science,” he said.
