Lawyers staged a demonstration in Sylhet city on Thursday opposing a fresh joint survey designed to hand over to hundreds of acres of Bangladesh territory in Sylhet to India.
Hundreds of lawyers formed a human chain, under the banner of District Lawyers' Association, defying torrential rains opposing the joint survey.
They called the fresh joint survey an Indian ploy for grabbing Bangladesh territory along the Sylhet-Meghalaya border.
There is absolutely no need to re-demarcate the boundary disregarding the existing border pillars, they said.
The protesters said India set its eyes to grab hundreds of acres of Bangladesh territory in Goainghat, Jaintapur, Companiganj, Kanaighat and Jakiganj in Sylhet along its border with Meghalaya.
They said that there was no need for a fresh joint survey disregarding the concrete border pillars established in 1947 following boundary demarcation by Radcliffe Commission.
They said setting up new border pillars in the village Padua inside Bangladesh and similar other points meant Bangladesh losing its territory to India.
Padua is in Goainghat upazila.
Later, they told a rally that the boundary pillars were established in 1947 after the demarcation was done by Cyril Radcliff Commission.
They took out a silent procession from the Second Bar Hall and gathered at the Court Point to form the human chain.
The rally was addressed by, among others, the association president EU Shahidul Islam, general secretary Fayzur Rahman Chowdhury Shahin, joint secretary Golam Razzaq Chowdhury, assistant secretary Khaled Jubayer, executive members Abdur Rakib, Kabir Ahmad Babar, Fakhruddin Ahmad, Abdul Khalique, Abdul Mannan, Sad Uddin, Mohammad Zakir Hossain, Ashiq Uddin Ashuq and Abdul Hye Quayum.
Source : New Age
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