Residents of Rasulpur slum, locally known as Rasulpur Colony formed a human chain yesterday in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall in Barisal city protesting notice of eviction drive.
Kazi Wahid Murad, president of Rasulpur Bastuhara League, presided over the programme where Khalilur Rahman, Naresh Chandra Das, leaders of Bastohara League, Dr Manisha Chakraborty, the district uni president of Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal spoke.
They said more than 100 families, mostly day labourers, marginal poor and landless people, live at slum.
The notice made the poor dwellers totally helpless, they also said. They demanded rehabilitation before eviction.
On 17 June, assistant commissioner of land at Sadar upazila land office, serving an eviction notice asked the dwellers to vacant the colony within 72-hour. The dwellers had been living at the colony occupying the government land illegally, the notice said.
