Different political parties and organisations observed the Shaheed Noor Hossain Day on Sunday amid tension as the Awami League announced a programme in Dhaka to mark the day while people who led the movement to oust the AL regime in July-August vowed to resist them.
Though people were scared, activists of the AL did not appear to bring out any procession at its pre-announced venue in the capital鈥檚 Bangabandhu Avenue area amid the guard of students, people and Bangladesh Nationalist Party-associated organisations.
The Awami League, however, brought out separate brief processions in Motijheel and Mohammadpur areas in the capital on the day.
The students, people and the activists of BNP鈥檚 associate organisations who had been guarding the Gulistan area, where the central office of the AL and Noor Hossain Square are located, brought out processions and held anti-Awami League rallies in the area.
The protesters also caught several people, including women, suspecting them to be AL activists and handed them over to the police after giving them a good beating.
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A student-mass uprising ousted the Awami League regime on August 5 when deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India.
The protesters, terming the AL 鈥榓 fascist party鈥�, also vowed to resist the Awami League from organising any programme.
The Awami League, through a post on its verified Facebook page on Saturday, announced that it would hold a procession in the capital鈥檚 Gulistan area at about 3:00pm on Sunday to mark the Shaheed Noor Hossain Day.
The interim government, however, termed the Awami League a 鈥榝ascist party鈥� and announced that the party would not be allowed to hold any protests.
About 10 to 15 AL activists brought out a brief procession in the Motijheel area at about 5:30am on Sunday and about 25 to 30 people of the party brought another brief procession in the Basila bridge area of Mohammadpur at about 2:30am on the day.
Additional forces of the law enforcement agencies in uniforms and plainclothes were deployed at different places in the capital and elsewhere across the country to avoid any untoward situation.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 50 people from different areas allegedly for creating anarchy in the city in 12 hours ending 8:00am on Sunday.
Some people were taking preparations for an听 鈥榠llegal procession鈥� with the national flag of the United States and the photo of the US president-elect Donald Trump following Awami League president Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 directives in a recently viral audio clip, according to DMP.
DMP deputy commissioner for media and public relations Muhammad Talebur Rahman told 抖阴精品 that the arrestees included financers and plotters of the illegal procession and the police seized posters having Donald Trump鈥檚 photo, banners and placards from the arrestees.
鈥榃e arrested them between 8:00pm on Saturday and 8:00am on Sunday,鈥� he said.
He said that they were trying to identify the political identities of the 鈥榓narchists鈥�.
Talebur also said that they alerted the check posts at Dhaka city entry points and increased detectives鈥� vigilance.
Mohammadpur police station officer-in-charge Ali Iftekhar Hasan said that they had arrested eight people and filed a case against them under the Special Powers Act, 1974.听
Border Guard Bangladesh on the day deployed 191 BGB members to maintain law and order in Dhaka as elsewhere in the country, said a BGB press release.
The members of security agencies were also seen patrolling in different city areas.
A tense situation was prevailing in front of the AL central office on Bangabandhu Avenue and its adjacent areas between Saturday night and Sunday evening.
In front of the AL central party office, several AL suspects, including women were beaten and handed over to the police since midnight past Saturday.
DMP Motijheel Division additional deputy commissioner Rezwanul Islam told 抖阴精品 Sunday evening that he could not say the exact figure of arrested AL suspects right now.
Students, mass people, activists of BNP and its associate organisations brought out protest processions and held short rallies separately at several places in Dhaka since Saturday evening to protest against the Awami League for announcing procession to mark the Shaheed Noor Hossain Day.
BNP鈥檚 student wing and youth wing brought out processions at several places in Dhaka city, including Kalyanpur, Green Road and Kalabagan areas and vowed to resist the Awami League on Saturday evening and Sunday.
Over a hundred people under the banner of 鈥楢nti-Discrimination Students and People鈥� also held a protest rally at the Zero Point in the capital鈥檚 Gulistan area Saturday evening demanding death sentence for Awami League president Sheikh Hasina.
Anti-Fascism Mancha, a newly flouted platform of student-people, held a day-long rally at the Zero Point area on Sunday.
They demanded that Awami League should be banned and ousted from politics through legal process.
Students of various educational institutions of the capital participated the rally against fascism.
Speakers said that the Awami League should be tried so that no fascism could raise their heads in Bangladesh.
Hasnat Abdullah, the convener of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, said that the Awami League had no right to come before the public until they were tried for committing genocide.
He said that the country鈥檚 people had seen Awami League鈥檚 brutality at Pilkhana and Shapla Chattar.
鈥楢wami League will return, definitely will return, to face trial, to walk gallows. So, Awami League and its allies have no right to do politics in Bangladesh until they are tried for committing genocide,鈥� he said.
He warned that those who would try to rehabilitate Awami League on the blood of two thousand martyrs would be resisted.
Umama Fatema, spokeswoman of the platform, said in the rally, 鈥榃e held the July Revolution by holding Noor Hossain. But the Awami League has destroyed history.鈥�
Earlier, different political parties and organisations paid tribute to Noor Hossain at Noor Hossain Square at Gulistan鈥檚 Zero Point. In the afternoon, student coordinators Sarjis Alam and Hasnat Abdullah recited poems on the stage erected there.
Sommilito Garments Sramik Federation in a statement on Sunday alleged that the AL used photos of garment workers鈥� programme 听on May Day 2024 on a Facebook page named 鈥楤angladesh Awami League鈥� claiming those photos to be AL鈥檚 procession marking Noor Hossain Day.
Condemning the incident, the organisation urged the government to investigate the incident and take stern action against the perpetrators.
In the past two days, the AL through social media sites including Facebook circulated different posts and photo cards insisting the people to come to Gulistan鈥檚 Zero Point, a place near the party鈥檚 central office on Bangabandhu Avenue.
Due to the activities of AL on social media and counter threats from agitators, people became afraid. Many guardians did not send their children to schools on the day and the city roads also witnessed fewer vehicles.