Journos` 3-hr `pen down` prog for 3 days from Mar 19

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UNB, Dhaka :
Journalists will observe a three-hour ‘pen down’ programme from 11 am to 2pm on March 19, 20 and 21 to press home their demand for immediate announcement of the 9th wage board.
Besides, they will stage a street-march towards the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and submit a memorandum on March 22 if the wage board is not
announced by the time. Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) president Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul on Sunday announced the programmes while observing a road blockade programme in front of the Jatiya Press Club.
As part of their countrywide programme, the journalists observed the two-hour road-blockade programme beginning at 11am in front of the Jatiya Press Club with the initiative of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ). All the unions and media organisations having the BFUJ affiliation arranged the road-blockade programme across the country demanding immediate announcement of the 9th wage board and the trial of all the journalist murder cases, including that of Sagar-Runi.
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