Staff Reporter :
The Shahbagh Police clogged the Minority Rights Movement, Shwacheton Shikkharthibrinda and Shadharan Shikkharthibrinda’s program to start long march from the Central Shaheed Minar for reaching the trouble affected Nasirnagar Upazila in Brahmanbaria district on Friday.
The Ashuganj Police did the same thing when a group of students from Jahangirnagar University reached there en route to Nasirnagar on the day.
The three organisations announced the programme as a mark of protest against the attacks on the members of a minority community at Nasirnagar Upazila in Brahmanbaria district on Tuesday.
The students of Dhaka University under the banner of ‘Minority Rights Movement’ started the long march from the TSC at about 10 am.
They also brought out a procession on the university
campus demanding the punishment to the culprits and giving of adequate compensations to the victims.
When the students reached the Central Shaheed Minar, the Shahbagh Police told them not to move to Nasirnagar and requested them to return to the campus.
“For security reason, Police told us to cancel the programme” said Manik Rakkhit, Coordinator of Minority Rights Movement.
“We said, we will be responsible for our own security. But police still didn’t let us go. Now, with a heavy heart, I must call off our programme,” he said.
“We drafted a six-point charter of demands for the victims of Nasirnagar and collected Tk 200,000 for them,” Manik Rakkhit said.
Officer-in-Charge of Shahbagh Police Station Abu Bakar Siddik told The New Nation that the students wanted to go to Nasirnagar for distributing relief among the victims. But the police apprised them of security problem at Nasirnagar and arranged afterward three microbuses for going there, the OC said.
“They can distribute relief materials at Nasirnagar, but they can’t hold a rally for security reason,” he said.
Meanwhile, a bus carrying the students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) was stopped at Ashuganj by the police.
Robin Karmakar, Coordinator of the JU students told The New Nation that a convoy of 47 students was going to Nasirnagar by a bus. But the police foiled the voyage.
It may be mentioned that on October 30, at least 15 Hindu temples and more than a hundred houses were damaged at Nasirnagar by angry mob over a Facebook post ‘insulting’ the Holy Ka’aba.
The Shahbagh Police clogged the Minority Rights Movement, Shwacheton Shikkharthibrinda and Shadharan Shikkharthibrinda’s program to start long march from the Central Shaheed Minar for reaching the trouble affected Nasirnagar Upazila in Brahmanbaria district on Friday.
The Ashuganj Police did the same thing when a group of students from Jahangirnagar University reached there en route to Nasirnagar on the day.
The three organisations announced the programme as a mark of protest against the attacks on the members of a minority community at Nasirnagar Upazila in Brahmanbaria district on Tuesday.
The students of Dhaka University under the banner of ‘Minority Rights Movement’ started the long march from the TSC at about 10 am.
They also brought out a procession on the university
campus demanding the punishment to the culprits and giving of adequate compensations to the victims.
When the students reached the Central Shaheed Minar, the Shahbagh Police told them not to move to Nasirnagar and requested them to return to the campus.
“For security reason, Police told us to cancel the programme” said Manik Rakkhit, Coordinator of Minority Rights Movement.
“We said, we will be responsible for our own security. But police still didn’t let us go. Now, with a heavy heart, I must call off our programme,” he said.
“We drafted a six-point charter of demands for the victims of Nasirnagar and collected Tk 200,000 for them,” Manik Rakkhit said.
Officer-in-Charge of Shahbagh Police Station Abu Bakar Siddik told The New Nation that the students wanted to go to Nasirnagar for distributing relief among the victims. But the police apprised them of security problem at Nasirnagar and arranged afterward three microbuses for going there, the OC said.
“They can distribute relief materials at Nasirnagar, but they can’t hold a rally for security reason,” he said.
Meanwhile, a bus carrying the students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) was stopped at Ashuganj by the police.
Robin Karmakar, Coordinator of the JU students told The New Nation that a convoy of 47 students was going to Nasirnagar by a bus. But the police foiled the voyage.
It may be mentioned that on October 30, at least 15 Hindu temples and more than a hundred houses were damaged at Nasirnagar by angry mob over a Facebook post ‘insulting’ the Holy Ka’aba.
