Khagrachhari Correspondent :
Leaders of Parbattya Bangali Chhatra Parishad (PBCP) urged the government to protect 129 kilometre border area between Bangladesh and India.
They also urged law-enforcing agencies to search for arms, drugs at 75 border villages including remote Tekkachhara, Shilchhari, Lantaral, Uttar Lakkachhara, Dipuchhari, Dupshil and Aranichhara and arrest terrorists to curb criminal activities at the border area.
The leaders were addressing a protest meeting held at Chenghi intersection in the hill town on Friday morning. The meeting was presided over by central Joint Secretary Engineer Abdul Mazid.
PBCP leaders criticised the role of CHT Commission and said, they have been playing bad role to instigate ethnic people ultimately disturbing the peace and harmony in the hill districts.
Terming the CHT commission one-sided and harmful for hill people, they declared it and its members unwanted in CHT.
PBCP leaders considered the commission members as conspirators, instigators and brokers and said, bloody clashes happened between Bangalis and the ethnic people each time after their CHT visits.
Mohalchhari Upazila PBCP President Shahdat Hossain, Matiranga Upazila PBCP President Lokman Hossain, Panchhari Upazila PBCP President Sohel Rana and Bagaihat PBCP President Anwar Hossain spoke among others.
Meanwhile, in a press briefing, co-chair of Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (familiar as CHT Commission) Sultana Kamal urged government to take initiative to settle problems aroused after establishing 51-BGB Battalion at Babuchhara under Dighinala Upazila in Khagrachhari.
She also urged government to take initiative to free six indigenous men and women, who are in jail for their alleged involvement with attack on 51-BGB Battalion on June 10 last month.
Sultana Kamal said indigenous people were shifted here for several times due to different development projects implemented by government in CHT in the last 50 years.
She criticised PBCP for declaring them unwanted in CHT and said it’s painful that the so-called organisation also imposed road blockade programme to resist CHT commission.
She also urged the government to implement the CHT accord, well known as peace accord aiming to bring permanent peace in CHT.
