The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will organise a two-day “long march” towards the Teesta Barrage in Nilphamari on April 22-23 demanding due share of the river waters from India and protesting against the government’s failure to act. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday announced the programme at a press briefing following a joint meeting of the party at Naya Paltan.
The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) will jointly launch a three-day march towards Teesta Barrage today. The march will start on Thursday after the holding of a rally in front of the Jatiya Press Club around 3:30pm.
The BNP’s march will start from the party headquarters at Naya Paltan in the city on April 22. A rally will be held at Rangpur where their caravan will reach later in the day. After an overnight’s stay at Rangpur, the long march will restart towards the barrage the following morning. A protest rally will be held at the Dalia point of the Teesta Barrage at 11:00am on April 23.
Replying to a question, the BNP leader said three crore people of Bangladesh cannot suffer for the sake of good relations with India. “This is our national problem. That’s why we are organising the long march,” he added.
Fakhrul said a Teesta water sharing agreement was supposed to have been signed during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Bangladesh in 2011, but the government failed to ink it. He hoped the government would help them in carrying out the programme and not create any hurdles for the long march as it had done earlier.
As per the decision of the meeting, the BNP would hold a protest rally at the Institute of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh on Thursday, demanding that the whereabouts of Ilias Ali, abducted three years ago, be made public. The BNP leader alleged that 22 leaders of city BNP had remained missing so far.
Ilias, a former BNP MP from Biswanath of Sylhet, went missing in the city on April 17, 2012, along with his driver
Ansar Ali. Briefing reporters at the CPB’s Paltan central office, the party’s secretary general, Syed Abu Zafar Ahmed, said they will march towards Gazipur where a mass rally would be held at the Gazipur crossing around 5:30 pm. They would stay for the night at Sirajganj.
He said another rally would be held at Sirajganj around 10:00am on Friday and later they would march towards Bogra where another rally would be held at about 4:00pm and stay overnight at Rangpur.
The marchers will hold another rally at the Rangpur Public Library field at about 10:00am on Saturday and then start for the Teesta Barrage in the morning and hold the concluding rally at Sadhur Bazar adjacent to the Dalia Teesta Barrage.
0The CPB leader said the next programmes would be announced from the concluding rally at Sadhur Bazar. BSD general secretary Khalequzzaman said the Indian government has unilaterally been controlling the Teesta waters through the Teesta Barrage. “The issue will be raised at the international forum, if necessary,” he added.
BNP to start Teesta long march Apr 22
The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) will jointly launch a three-day march towards Teesta Barrage today. The march will start on Thursday after the holding of a rally in front of the Jatiya Press Club around 3:30pm.
The BNP’s march will start from the party headquarters at Naya Paltan in the city on April 22. A rally will be held at Rangpur where their caravan will reach later in the day. After an overnight’s stay at Rangpur, the long march will restart towards the barrage the following morning. A protest rally will be held at the Dalia point of the Teesta Barrage at 11:00am on April 23.
Replying to a question, the BNP leader said three crore people of Bangladesh cannot suffer for the sake of good relations with India. “This is our national problem. That’s why we are organising the long march,” he added.
Fakhrul said a Teesta water sharing agreement was supposed to have been signed during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Bangladesh in 2011, but the government failed to ink it. He hoped the government would help them in carrying out the programme and not create any hurdles for the long march as it had done earlier.
As per the decision of the meeting, the BNP would hold a protest rally at the Institute of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh on Thursday, demanding that the whereabouts of Ilias Ali, abducted three years ago, be made public. The BNP leader alleged that 22 leaders of city BNP had remained missing so far.
Ilias, a former BNP MP from Biswanath of Sylhet, went missing in the city on April 17, 2012, along with his driver
Ansar Ali. Briefing reporters at the CPB’s Paltan central office, the party’s secretary general, Syed Abu Zafar Ahmed, said they will march towards Gazipur where a mass rally would be held at the Gazipur crossing around 5:30 pm. They would stay for the night at Sirajganj.
He said another rally would be held at Sirajganj around 10:00am on Friday and later they would march towards Bogra where another rally would be held at about 4:00pm and stay overnight at Rangpur.
The marchers will hold another rally at the Rangpur Public Library field at about 10:00am on Saturday and then start for the Teesta Barrage in the morning and hold the concluding rally at Sadhur Bazar adjacent to the Dalia Teesta Barrage.
0The CPB leader said the next programmes would be announced from the concluding rally at Sadhur Bazar. BSD general secretary Khalequzzaman said the Indian government has unilaterally been controlling the Teesta waters through the Teesta Barrage. “The issue will be raised at the international forum, if necessary,” he added.
BNP to start Teesta long march Apr 22
