The Hefazat-e-Islam is going to hold a two-day Shane Resalat Sommelan – a Muslim religious conference – in Chittagong city’s Laldighi ground on April 11-12 apparently to jolt its rank and file out of depression.
The two-day religious conference will put inspiration into the leaders and activists and help them to get united again, said Hefazat insiders.
According to sources in Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP), a total of 24 Hefazat leaders including its secretary general and scores of others are accused in 42 cases lodged with different police stations across the country including the capital following the mayhem in Dhaka on May 5-6 in 2013.
CMP Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam said that a total 200 policemen will be deployed at the conference venue, which is located near the CMP headquarters, Chittagong Court Building and deputy commissioner’s office, for security reason and to evade any kind of untoward incidence.
Azizul Haq Islamabadi, organising secretary of the Hefazate Islam, said: “If the administration harasses us the government has to face a wave of movement.”
“We will hold peaceful programme but if we are obstructed we know how to answer that.”
A high official of the CMP seeking anonymity said it was risky to allow the Hefazat to hold rally near so many important points of the city.
Banaz Kumar Majumder, additional commissioner (crime and operation) of the CMP, said the CMP allowed the Hefazat to hold its programme on some conditions.
