Farmers in Rajshahi on Thursday went on demonstrations, laid siege to deputy commissioner's office and submitted a memorandum addressed to the prime minister demanding uninterrupted power supply.
Sources said that several hundred farmers from the city outskirts gathered on the court premises and blocked the Rajshahi–Natore Highway to push their demand.
The blockade resulted in about two hundred vehicles being stranded on both end of the road stretch.
The farmers later brought out a procession and then went to lay siege to the deputy commissioner's office.
Civil society actors, right activists, businessmen, students and teachers joined the rally to express their solidarity with the demand of farmers.
A large number of policemen later asked the farmers to call off their protests.
Speakers at the rally said that the government had failed to supply power for which the farmers could not run their deep and shallow tube wells for irrigation.
The speakers also threatened to wage a mass movement against the government if their demand was not met soon.
Rajshhai Rakkha Sangram Parishad convener Jamat Khan, Haragram union council chairman Abul Kalam Azad and Rajshahi-base Sonali Sangbad editor Liakot Ali also spoke.
They went to the office of the deputy commissioner and submitted a memorandum addressed to the prime minister.
The deputy commissioner, Deowar Bakht, said that he would send the memorandum to the prime minister.
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