Shahbagh protesters have urged all to resist the general strike Hefajat-e-Islam on Saturday called at its rally at Motijheel for today and said that the strike was against the spirit of the independence war.
The protesters shouted slogans and held cultural programmes in the Shabagh crossing on the 59th day of the movement on Sunday.
The protests broke out at Shahbagh on February after International Crimes Tribunal 2 sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami’s assistant general secretary Abdul Quader Molla to life in prison. They protesters are demanding death penalty for all war criminals and a ban on Jamaat and its student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir.
The Shahbagh protesters also brought out a procession in the evening carrying sticks.
The Islamist group Hefajat announced the strike and a series of rallies in April 11– 30 at the rally at Motijheel after a long march to Dhaka to push for its 13-point
demands that, among other issues, include the reinstatement of the phrase ‘absolute trust and faith in Almighty Allah’ in the preamble to the constitution, the enactment of a blasphemy law provisioning for death penalty as the highest punishment and an end to anti-Islamic campaigns through blogging and punishment of such bloggers.
Blogger Imran H Sarkar put out a call for resistance against Hefajat’s strike. ‘We will resist this strike. Hefajat people have insulted the national flag. We will resist their strike with the national flag.’
He said that they would hold a procession, carrying the national flag, at 11:00am today to resist the dawn-to-dusk general strike.
He also urged people to resist the strike and bring out processions carrying the national flag across the country at 11:00am.
Imran also urged all to hoist the national flag atop their houses the way it should be done as laid out in the law.
Shahbagh protesters stayed in the Shahbagh crossing round-the-clock on Sunday. They said that they would continue staying there till the end of the general strike. (Source)
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