NN Online:
A six-member delegation from three BNP affiliate groups—Jatiotabadi Jubodal, Jatiotabadi Swechhasebak Dal, and Jatiotabadi Chatradal—visited the Indian High Commission (HC) on Sunday to submit a memorandum protesting recent incidents in India deemed anti-Bangladesh.
They went to the Indian High Commission in Baridhara, Dhaka, where they handed over the memorandum to an official of the Indian mission.
The delegation consisted of Jatiyatabadi Jubodal Central President Monayem Munna, General Secretary Nurul Islam Nayan, Jatiyatabadi Swechhasebak Dal President SM Jilani, General Secretary Rajib Ahsan, Jatiyatabadi Chatradal President Rakibul Islam Rakib, and General Secretary Nasir Uddin Nasir.
Earlier, police halted a protest march arranged by three associate bodies of BNP towards the Indian mission near Rampura Bridge in the capital for the sake of maintaining law and order.
When the march reached the bridge from Nayapaltan around 12:35pm, a large number of police blocked the way with barricades and urged the leaders of the three organisations to cooperate.
Later, the six-member delegation of the protesters was allowed to go to the Indian High Commission to submit a memorandum.
The three BNP associate bodies began their road march to protest the attack on the Bangladesh mission in Agartala and the desecration of the country’s national flag.
The programme was also intended to register protests against what the party describes as an Indian plot to incite communal riots in Bangladesh.
Thousands of leaders and activists from the three BNP associate bodies formally began the march from the party’s Nayapaltan central office at 11:30am.
Before launching the march, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, top leaders from the three organisations, also delivered brief speeches, condemning the Indian ruling party and media for attempting to disrupt religious harmony in Bangladesh through false and misleading campaigns.
Rizvi alleged that what the Indian ruling party is currently doing to bring Sheikh Hasina back to Bangladesh is nothing but direct aggression.
