Time to resist communal violence: Mancha

The Ganajagaran Mancha has called upon people to resist the communal violence in a bid to build a non-communal Bangladesh in line with the spirits of the Liberation War.

The call was made at a road-side meeting in Manikganj on Friday.

The platform's road march to Jessore's Maloparha, to protest against the recent attack on minorities, reached Manikganj around 2pm.

Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker said at the meeting that the religious fanatics, fundamentalists and the anti-liberation forces have been indulging in violence for the last 43 years to ruin the country and turn it into a failed-state.

"We don't want to limit ourselves within human chains and rallies any more. We want to form resistance in order to build a non-communal Bangladesh in line with the spirits of the Liberation War," he said.

The first road-side meeting of the Mancha during its road march was held around 12.30pm in front of the Jahangirnagar University in Savar.

The road march kicked-off from Dhaka's Shahbagh around 10 am.

The Ganajagaran Mancha announced its road march on Tuesday after religious minorities had come under attack following Sunday's polls.

Four road-side meetings and two public rallies are scheduled to be staged during the march.

The next one will be held at Faridpur's Janata Bank intersection.

The Mancha will hold rallies at Faridpur's Madhukhali in the afternoon and another at Magura's Khanparha.

After a night’s halt at Jessore, the activists of the Mancha will march to Jessore's Maloparha, which was hit by communal violence after Sunday's polls, on Saturday morning.

On Saturday, the marchers will be at Maloparha, talking to the victims and mobilising mass opinion against communal violence besides distributing relief materials.

On their way back, the Mancha activists will hold a rally at Jessore's Chitramorh.