Urdu-speaking people and leaders on Wednesday protest rally in Mirpur demanded the withdrawal of all cases filed against them in killing during the student-led mass uprising.
Urdu-Speaking People-Youth Rehabilitation Movement leaders termed the cases as ‘false’.
The leaders alleged that the cases were filed as a conspiracy to create unrest in the Bihari camps.
The USPYRM general secretary Shahid Ali Bablu said that Urdu-speaking leader Sadakat Khan Fakku and many others were the victims of cases and attacks during the autocratic Awami League regime.
‘Our office was locked down. We have now been accused in the murder case for killing student-people after the regime change. This is unfortunate,’ said Bablu.
He claimed that a group was plotting to create unrest in the Bihari camps like in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. ‘They know that Mirpur will become unrest if a few Bihari leaders are arrested in such false cases.’
Bablu urged the interim government to take steps regarding the matter.
The USPYRM president Sadakat Khan Fakku claimed that he along with his son, the organisation’s GS, Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s Pallabi former organising secretary and at least 25 Urdu-speaking people were framed in false cases.
‘Business owners in Benarasi Palli have also been sued for extortion purposes,’ said Fakku, demanding the withdrawal of the cases.
They also announced to hold stringent programme if no appropriate action would be taken within three days, said Fakku.
The USPYRM vice-president Abdur Rashid Khan Biren, joint general secretary Moktar Hossain, and organisational secretary Shakil, among others, were present at the rally.
