Ganajagaran Mancha brought out a procession on Wednesday protesting the 48-hour countrywide shutdown called by Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir.
The procession paraded TSC and Kataban along with different streets of Dhaka University and later the platform staged a rally at the Shahbagh intersection.
Addressing the rally, Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson Dr Imran H Sarker urged the government to impose a bar on Jamaat-Shibir’s right to call for hartals.
He said: “As the High Court and Election Commission has imposed a bar on Jamaat’s participation in the election, you [the government] should also restrict their right to call for hartal. Steps should also be taken against their citizenship, otherwise, the country will not be protected from their anarchies.”
He also called upon the government to execute the verdicts against all the war criminal immediately.
The spokesperson also informed that the Ganajagaran Mancha would remain on the streets with anti-hartal programmes today.
Earlier on Tuesday, Jamaat-e-Islami called for a 48-hour hartal after the Appellate Division sentenced Jamaat Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla to death, overruling the judgement of the International Crimes Tribunal that had given him life sentence for war crimes committed during 1971 Liberation War.
Meanwhile, activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) also brought out an anti-hartal procession inside DU campus.
In a short rally, BCL President HM Badiuzzaman Sohag said the pro-Liberation War forces must be united to resist BNP and Jamaat-Shibir so that the country could see the execution of the verdicts given to the war criminals. The BCL president also urged the government to ban the politics of Jamaat-Shibir as early as possible.
BCL DU unit President Mehedi Hasan Molla, General Secretary Omar Sharif and Central Information and Research Secretary Ershad Hossain were among those present at the rally.
