Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s three associate bodies — Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal, and Chhatra Dal — will begin a long march from Dhaka towards Agartala in India on Wednesday to protest against the attack on the Bangladesh mission in Agartala and the desecration of the Bangladesh national flag.
Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal central president Monayem Munna on behalf of the three organisations, came up with the announcement in a joint press conference on Monday at BNP’s Naya Paltan central office in Dhaka.
The three organisations made the announcement just a day after they held a procession towards the Indian high commission in Bangladesh and submitted a memorandum on Sunday protesting against the attack on the Bangladesh assistant high commission in India’s Agartala.
Munna said they would begin their long march from Naya Paltan at 8:00am on Wednesday, and it would end at the Akhaura border.
The programme is also meant to register protests against what they describe as an Indian plot to incite communal riots in Bangladesh and spread propaganda against Bangladesh.
Calling upon the leaders and activists of the three organisations, Juba Dal president said, ‘I am calling upon all levels of students, youths, and volunteer leaders and activists of Bangladesh to participate in the procession.’
Munna said, ‘We see the violent attacks on Bangladesh’s missions in Agartala as an attack on the country’s independence and sovereignty.’
He said, ‘The Indian government completely failed to protect diplomats as required by the Vienna Convention while various authorities in India have made unnecessary comments on Bangladesh’s internal affairs, causing unrest.’
He also said that India did not express any protest or concern when Sheikh Hasina ordered shoot-at-sight and killed a number of Hindus in Bangladesh.
But after Hasina’s fall, India stood against the people of Bangladesh by spreading false and baseless propaganda regarding minority oppression. It gave Sheikh Hasina an opportunity to embarrass the student-citizen government of Bangladesh from Indian soil,’ he added.
Swechchhasebak Dal president SM Jilani and Chhatra Dal president Rakibul Islam Rakib were also present at the event.
On Sunday, they submitted a memorandum to the Indian high commission to register their protest against the recent anti-Bangladesh incidents in India and demanding an end to misinformation about Bangladesh.
Police, however, had blocked their protest march towards Indian high commission near Rampura Bridge in the capital earlier.
 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.