Ganajagaran Mancha oppose Jamaat strikes

Ganajagaran Mancha has rejected the strike called by the Jamaat-e-Islami in protest against the death sentence awarded to its chief Motiur Rahman Nizami.

Jamaat has called for the strike on Thursday, Sunday and Monday.

Speaking at a press conference in Dhaka's Shahbagh, Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarkar said their activists would hold anti-shutdown processions across the country on all the three days.

Mancha members and supporters would also gather at Shahbagh from 10am on the days as part of their anti-shutdown programmes, he added.

Sarkar said Mancha’s march from Teknaf to Tetulia to press its six-point charter of demands, including capital punishment for war criminals, had been shifted due to the shutdowns.

He said now the march would commence from Dhaka to Tetulia in Panchagarh on Friday morning and would culminate back in Dhaka on Nov 2.

The Mancha people will hold meetings and rallies at different places in Jhenaidah, Chuadanga, Meherpur, Kushtia, Natore, Joypurhat, Dinajpur, Nilphamari and Panchagarh.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced Nizami, who led Pakistan Army’s vigilante militia outfit Al-Badr to abort Bangladesh’s birth, to death for the wartime atrocities.