The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports threatened to lay a siege on highways and railways if their three-point demands were not fulfilled by 10am today.
Altaf Hossain, convener of Dinajpur district committee of the oil-gas body on Tuesday evening gave the ultimatum while addressing the local people at a two-day siege on the country's lone coal mine.
'We will go for further tough programmes including road and railway blockade. The oil-gas body with the local people will force the coal mining authorities to stop coal extraction', he added.
Barapukuria local committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports organised the two-day long agitation programme that started on Monday morning demanding compensation for the affected people for the damages of the last Aman crop, for stopping filing of cases and harassments against those involved in the just movement and for stopping the conspiracy of going for open-pit mining at Barapukuria.
The agitators took position at the coal mine gate obstructing officials and labourers of the coal mine from going to work. The blockade will continue till Wednesday morning.
Local people attended the two-day agitation programme demanding compensation for damage of their arable land.
'We are losing our land and residential and commercial establishments for the coal mine. We want compensation for that', said Mosharraf Hossain, a resident of Jigagari village near Barapukuria coal mine while attending the programme on the second day.
Shamsul Huq, a resident of Barapukuria told New Age that many local people including women were living away from their home as a case had been filed against them for creating obstacles while the government officials were trying to conduct survey for acquiring arable land and commercial and residential areas.
Source: New Age
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