The Left Democratic Alliance, a combine of six left political parties, and Rights activists on Wednesday urged the government to improve law and order situation and stop repression on the children and women across the country.
In separate rallies in the capital, they urged the government to take effective stapes to ensure speedy trial in rape cases to ensure justice for the victims.聽
Addressing the LDA rally in front of the National Press Club in the capital as the chair, the combine coordinator and Revolutionary Communist League general secretary Iqbal Kabir Jahid alleged that the interim government had failed to control law and order in the past seven months.
Moreover, the number of repression on children and women increased across the country, he alleged.
He called on the government to take immediate steps to stop the repression and hold the next general election as early as possible.
Communist Party of Bangladesh joint general secretary Mihir Ghosh called on the government to stop mob culture through which many innocent people were affected.
The Dhaka city unit of the Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, in its protest rally in front of the National Press Club in the afternoon, protested at the recent surge in incidents of rape and other forms of violence against women.
Speakers at the rally expressed deep concern over the situation and said that the country did not experience so many incidents of rape and violence against women in the past.
The recent rape and death of an eight-year-old girl in Magura has shaken the country and the culture of impunity and delay in ensuring justice are among the main causes for the surge of such crimes, they said.
The widespread protests sparked in the country after an eight-year-old girl was found in a critical condition after she had been raped on March 5 while visiting her sister鈥檚 in-laws鈥� house in Magura. She died on March 13 while undergoing treatment.