Dhaka Bureau: In continuation of the ongoing anti-government movement, Jamaat-e-Islami has announced a three-day blockade across the country tomorrow on October 31 and November 1 and 2. The party’s acting secretary, General Maulana ATM Machum, announced the program in a statement on Monday, October 30.
In the statement, he said that various anti-government political parties, including Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP, announced the program of a mass meeting in the capital Dhaka on October 28. The law and order forces of the country, instead of cooperating in the implementation of the program of the peaceful mass gathering, obstructed the way for the leaders and activists to come to the assembly.
The leaders and activists who came to the rally were searched from their cars and arrested en masse after getting off the bus, launch, and train. Awami terrorists attacked a peaceful rally of opposition parties, and law and order forces broke up the rally with tear gas, firing, and heavy lathi charges.
Four people, including journalists and BNP activists, were killed, and thousands of activists were injured due to police teargas and bullets. Around 2000 leaders and activists of opposition parties, including Jamaat-e-Islami, have been arrested in the last few days in connection with mass gatherings and hartals.
Resignation of the government, re-establishment of the caretaker government system to make the upcoming twelfth parliamentary elections free, fair, and impartial, release of all arrested political leaders and clerics, including Ameer Jamaat Dr. Shafiqur Rahman, curbing the rise in prices of daily necessities, attacks on the opposition party’s general meeting on October 28, journalists, and We are announcing a program of road, rail, and waterway blockades across the country tomorrow, Tuesday, October 31, and November 1 and 2, in protest against the killing of activists, setting fire to cars, and creating anarchy by government-instigated terrorists. I call upon the people of Jamaat-e-Islami at all levels and the people of the country to carry out the declared blockade program peacefully in the greater interest of the country.
