Student movement to hold public gathering tomorrow at Zero Point
Earlier today, Shafiqul Alam, press secretary to the chief adviser, had said Awami League (AL) will not be granted permission to hold a protest programme in Dhaka city tomorrow.
The Anti-discrimination Student Movement has called for a public gathering at the Zero Point in Gulistan tomorrow (10 November) to demand trial of the leaders of the ousted Awami League.
Hasnat Abdullah, a coordinator of the movement, said an "anti-fascist stage" will be set up there at 12pm.
Earlier, from its verified Facebook post, Bangladesh Awami League urged its activists to come to Shaheed Noor Hossain Chattar at Zero Point, Gulistan on 10 November and protest against what they call "misrule".
"Our protest is against the deprivation of the rights of the people of the country; Our protest is against the rise of fundamentalist forces; our protest is against the conspiracy to disrupt the lives of the common people," reads the Facebook post.
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Earlier today, Shafiqul Alam, press secretary to the chief adviser, had said Awami League (AL) will not be granted permission to hold a protest programme in Dhaka city tomorrow.
"The Awami League in its current form is a fascist party. There is no way this fascist party will be allowed to hold protests in Bangladesh," he wrote in a post on his personal Facebook profile.
"Anyone who would try to hold rallies, gatherings and processions by taking orders from the mass murderer and dictator Sheikh Hasina will face full force of the law enforcing agencies.
"The interim government won't tolerate any violence or any attempt to break the law and order situation in the country," the post further read.
Later on, Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain said law enforcers would take stern action if any organisation linked to the mass killings tries to hold any political programme.
He made the remarks in a post from his verified Facebook account today, in the backdrop of the first ever demonstration called by the Awami League (AL) in the city tomorrow since its ouster on 5 August following a student-led mass upsurge.
On 10 November 1987, Noor Hossain, a leader of Awami Jubo League, was killed in police firing while protesting against the then autocratic rule of Gen HM Ershad at the capital's Zero Point near Gulistan.
Shaheed Noor Hossain Day will be observed tomorrow.
