Police stopped the joint procession of the affiliated organisations of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party near Rampura Bridge on Sunday as it was marching towards the Indian high commission in Dhaka from the party鈥檚 central office at Naya Paltan.
Several thousand leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, and Swechchhasebak Dal started the march at about 11:30am in front of the party鈥檚 central office at Naya Paltan.
With this large procession, the countrywide protests against the attack on Bangladesh assistant high commission in India鈥檚 Agartala rolled into the seventh consecutive day on Sunday.
Huge traffic congestions were created due to the march and people suffered immensely as the blockade near Rampura Bridge created backlog till Malibagh in the south and Natun Bazar in the north.
Later, a six-member delegation from the three BNP associate bodies submitted a memorandum to the Indian high commission at about 1:05pm to register their protests against the recent anti-Bangladesh incidents in the neighbouring country.
The delegation consisted of Chhatra Dal president Rakibul Islam Rakib and general secretary Nasir Uddin Nasir, Juba Dal central president Monayem Munna, its general secretary Nurul Islam Nayan, Swechchhasebak Dal president SM Jilani and general secretary Rajib Ahsan.
The demands in the memorandum include a thorough investigation into the attack on the Bangladesh mission in Agartala and appropriate punitive measures against the perpetrators, to ensure safety and security of all Bangladesh diplomatic missions and personnel in India and stopping misinformation on Bangladesh by leveraging their media.
Members of Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy, police and Coast Guard members were seen deployed in and around Indian high commission in Dhaka.
Law enforcers and security agency members block road at Bashtola area near Indian high commission and neither vehicle nor people were allowed on the road.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Gulshan Division deputy commissioner Mohammad Tareq Mahmud told 抖阴精品 that they had increased the security in and around Indian high commission considering the BNP鈥檚 march.
鈥榃e have been taking special security measures centering Indian high commission since Tuesday and it will be continued until further notice,鈥� he said.
Earlier, addressing a short rally in front of the BNP鈥檚 central office before the march, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleged that the Indian ruling party鈥檚 ploy to bring Sheikh Hasina back to Bangladesh was nothing but direct aggression.
鈥榊ou [Indian government] do not like the people of Bangladesh. You do not respect the sovereignty and independence of Bangladesh,鈥� he said.
Rizvi unequivocally said that 180 million people of Bangladesh were prepared to resist Delhi鈥檚 hegemony.
The Bangladesh mission in Agartala came under attack in the afternoon of December 2 by a group of Indians during their protests demanding the release of Hindu community leader in Bangladesh Chinmoy Krishna Das, now in jail in a sedition case.
