The Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chittagong city unit on Sunday formed human chains at different points of the city thoroughfare stretching from Patenga to 3rd Karnaphuli Bridge.
The party was scheduled to form an 18-kilometer human chain in protest against state persecution, the government's failure to check price hike of essential commodities, and implicating the party leaders and activists in what it alleged were false cases.
The BNP leaders and activists formed human chains at different points of the road including Dewanhat, Jamiatul Falah, Muradpur, Kalamiar Bazar, Kathgar, Nomtol, and Bandartila crossing for 15 minutes since 2:00pm.
BNP Chittagong city unit president Amir Khashru Mahmud Chowdhury, who took part in the human chain formed at Jamiatul Falah point, told reporters that thousands of party leaders and activists had joined the human chains at 40 points of the road.
'The government earlier used to persecute the opposition leaders and activists using law-enforcers. Now they have also been using the country's apex court for the same purpose,' he said, adding that the dictated verdicts of the apex court reflected a single-party rule.
Party leaders Shahadat Hossain, Roji Kabir, Kazi Belal, Abu Sufian, Mosherraf Hossain Dipti, and Ahmedur Alam Chowdhury Rasel, among others, joined the human chains.
Source : New Age
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