
Different organisations on Tuesday held rallies and human chains in Bangladesh protesting at the attack on the Bangladesh assistant high commission in India’s Agartala on December 2 and Indian aggression as well.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday in Rajshahi burnt a bed sheet made in India as he continued his call to boycott all kinds of Indian products as a protest.
‘This is a bed sheet produced in Jaipur of Rajasthan in India. Today, we are throwing it on the ground protesting against the Indian aggression to Bangladesh,’ he said before the party men set it on fire at Bhuban Mohon Park in Rajshahi city.
Rizvi said that they were boycotting Indian products as the Indian rulers did not make friendship with the people of Bangladesh but with Hasina who had killed over a thousand of students and people several days ago.
Protesting at Indian’s West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s threat, Rizvi said that they would not sit idle if anyone wanted to capture Chattogram. ‘I am saying to you (Mamata), if you want to capture Chattogram, we will not suck Amlaki,’ he added.
BNP’s three associate bodies — Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal, and Chhatra Dal — will hold a long march from Dhaka towards Agartala today protesting at the attack and the desecration of the Bangladesh national flag.
In Dhaka, Bangladesh Christian Association held a human chain in front of the National Press Club protesting at the attack and Indian aggression in Bangladesh.
Condemning the attack and aggression, speakers at the human chain said that ousted Awami League was plotting at India to destabilise Bangladesh.Â
People of all religion are living in Bangladesh with harmony but Indian media is spreading false propaganda, said the speakers.
They also said that India did not provide fair share of trans-border rivers’ water and committed aggression by signing unequal agreements during AL regime.
Students and people of Bangladesh ousted AL regime and they will not tolerate Indian aggression anymore, said the speakers.
BDR Kallyan Parishad organised a protest rally in front of the National Press Club and called for national unity to prevent Indian aggression.
Meanwhile, export, import and immigration activities were halted in at the Bhomra Land Port in Satkhira due to the blockade programme on the main road of Ghojadanga Land Port in India, reported ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· Correspondent in Satkhira.
Bhomra Land Port businessman Dipangkar Ghosh said that Indian BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari led the blockade demanding an end of business between Bangladesh and India alleging oppression on minorities in Bangladesh.