The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and other opposition parties, who are participating on simultaneous movement under the BNP’s leadership, will hold today an absentee funeral prayer session for the people who killed in Tuesday’s clashes between police, Chhatra League and anti-quota movement protestors.
The BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the ‘ghayebana janaza’ programme at a press conference, following a liaison committee meeting with the Ganatantra Mancha at the BNP chairperson’s political office in Gulshan in Dhaka.
He said that seven people were killed in the attacks of the police and Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, during the quota reform movement.
The ‘janaza’ will be held at the north gate of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque at 1:30pm, he said, adding that the same programme would be observed across the country.
In the joint press conference of the political parties, Fakhrul said that instead of taking effective and credible initiatives to fulfil the fair and logical demands of the students’ quota reform movement, the students’ movement were attacked Monday and Tuesday.
‘In the past 48 hours, thousands of students have been injured at the hands of government-affiliated terrorists across the country. Many of them are seriously injured and on the brink of death,’ he said, adding that the entire responsibility of the incident must take the government.