Activists of three left-leaning parties in Rajshahi city on Wednesday demonstrated and laid a siege on the office of Power Development Board and submitted a memorandum demanding uninterrupted electricity supply.
Witnesses said at around 11am several hundred people under the banner of Bangladesh Gana Sanghati Andolon, Communist Party of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Somajtantrik Dal demonstrated in front the local PDB office at Hetem Khan in the city.
Later they observed an hour-long sit-in programme and laid a siege on the PDB office demanding uninterrupted power supply in the city area.
A large numbers of local people expressed their solidarity with the demands of the three political parties and joined the demonstration that caused a huge traffic jam in front of the PDB office.
CPB Rajshahi city unit president Abul Kalam Azad, district unit general secretary Enamul Haque, Gana Sanghati Andolan Rajshahi district coordinator Murad Morshed and Bangladesh Somajtantrick Dal Rajshahi district secretariat member Dabashish Ray addressed the rally among others.
Speakers at the rally said that due to frequent outages and load-shedding, industrial units were suffering production loss.
Tthey pointed out that traders and shopkeepers could use generators because of high prices of diesel and petrol.
source:New Age
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