The national committee campaigning for protection of natural resources on Friday called on the Awami League-led government to fulfil the Phulbari agreement immediately or face 'consequences'.
Addressing a discussion marking a popular protest at Phulbari after the police firing on a rally on August 26, 2006, the member-secretary of the national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports, Anu Muhammad issued the warning and said the people of Phulbari had made history this day five years ago in their struggle to protect the country's natural resources.
The movement compelled the then Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led government was compelled to sign the seven-point Phulbari agreement with the national committee, he said.
The Phulbari unit of the national committee organised different programmes to mark the 5th anniversary of the protest.
In Dhaka activists of the committee placed wreath
at the Central Shaheed Minar.
In Phulbri the committee placed wreath in the
morning at the monument built at the pace where three people were killed in police firing, and held a discussion.
Convener of the national committee Sheikh Muhammad Shaheedullah, its leaders Tipu Biswas, Shubrangshu Chakrabarty, Ragib Ahsan Munna, Zonayed Saki, Moshraf Hossain Nannu, Sohan Sobhan, Aminul Islam Bablu and Rabindra Soren also spoke at the discussion chaired by its local unit convener Saiful Islam Jewel.
A separate programme was organised by professional organisations led by Murtuza Sarker Manik.
Leaders of the national committee, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Workers Party, Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal, Revolutionary Workers Party, Ganasanghati Andolan, National Awami Party faction, Bangladesher Communist League, Democratic Revolutionary Party, BSD faction and Democratic Left Alliance placed wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on the day.
Source : New Age
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