Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh Government Employees Solidarity Council (BGESC), an organization of the employees under the grades of 11 to 20 and non-gazetted officials, has declared programme of holding a grand rally on May 27 this year near the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka demanding formation of ‘Ninth National Pay Commission’ and 50 percent dearness allowances in the backdrop of price hike of almost all commodities and other necessities essential for living.
The BGESC, well known as Bangladesh Sarkari Karmachari Sanghati Parishad, on Sunday gave the announcement of the fresh programme to realize their nine point demands through a press release signed by its Joint Secretary General Abul Hasem Shanti.
The release said that the decision of holding the grand rally at Dhaka was taken at its Special Council held on April 27 in the city’s Postal Building. BGESC President Nizamul Islam Bhuiyan Milon chaired the meeting while its Secretary General Helal Uddin moderated it.
In the meeting, BGESC President Milon accused a section of government employees to have been trying to organize another ‘Janatar Mancha’ like 1996 to oust the government with the support of country’s anti-liberation forces. The government should remain alert about those people and implement the nine point demands of BGESC to lessen sufferings of the employees created for price hike, he added.
Former BTV Director General M. Hamid, BGESC leaders Wares Ali, Khalilur Rahman Bhuiyan, Anwar Hossain, Lutfar Rahman, Saiful Islam Chowdhury, Yunus Ali Patwary, Musa Ahmed and MA Awal also spoke at the programme.
