The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral Resources, power and ports on Sunday called on the Awami League-led government not to take up repression as a tool stop its movements.
The committee leaders at a rally in front of the National Press Club said that they would not stop their movement even if the government continued with repression against them.
The national committee held the rally in protest at the attack by ruling party men on a national committee rally in the presence of the police at Badshahganj in Netrakona on Saturday.
The police ordered a ban on gathering by imposing Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure at Saifurhati as both the national committee and the ruling party announced to hold rallies at the same place at the same time.
Central leaders of the national committee joined the rally organised in protest at the government's plan to have gas in the Sunetra gas field extracted by international oil companies.
The national committee convener, Sheikh Muhammad Shaheedullah, condemned the attack on its rally by ruling party men and demanded punishments of the attackers.
The committee's member secretary Anu Muhammad called on the government not to frame model production sharing contract 2011 for gas exploration and extraction in the on-shore fields.
The committee will continue with mass contact programmes and hold a rally in Dhaka in November to force the government not to lease out gas blocks to IOCs keeping the provision for export of the gas extracted.
Committee leaders Nur Mohammad, Mohammad Enamul Haque, Ruhin Hossain Prince, Bazlur Rashid Firoz, Ragib Ahsan Munna, Mushrefa Mishu, Zonayed Saki and Khan Asaduzzaman Masum spoke at the rally.
The rally was followed by a procession that paraded city roads.
Source : New Age
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