The Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board Workers and Employees Federal Union formed human chains and staged demonstrations in Rajshahi and Chittagong on Sunday, pressing its 28-point demand, including restoration of the earlier name of the state-owned organisation.
In Rajshahi about one hundred members of the union brought out a procession, which starting from the Bangladesh Telecommu-nications Company Limited Rajshahi office, paraded through the major points of the city and ended in a human chain and rally at Shaheb Bazar Zero Point.
The speakers at the rally demanded that the government give back BTCL its old name BTTB and blamed the last BNP-led government for changing its name and structure in a bid to destroy the organisation.
Their other main demands were: integration of five telecom companies, regularisation of their jobs and shutting down the illegal Voice Over Internet Protocol operations.
They threatened to wage tougher actions if the government failed to respond to their demands immediately.
Sharif Ali, president, and Omar Faruk, general secretary, of the Rajshahi unit of the union addressed the rally among others.
In Chittagong, over 500 members of the union formed a human chain on the Chittagong Press Club premises in the afternoon.
Bishwaranjan Chakra-barty, president, and Ajay Kumar Chowdhury, general secretary, of the regional committee of the union, Abdul Latif, Abdul Majid, Paritosh Chowdhury, Mujibur Rahman, Abdul Malek, Jahangir Alam, Putul Barua, Amjad Hossain and Nargis Akhter attended the programme among others.
Ajay Kumar Chowdhury said that this was part of a countrywide human chain programme of the union.
'We want the organisation to go back to its former name. The existing bureaucratic tangles are destroying the organisation. We also want the removal of the present secretary of the telecommunication ministry as he has failed to prove his competence,' he said.
Source : New Age
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