District leaders of the National Oil, Gas Committee at a meeting on Saturday asked for strengthening their organisation so that it could compel the government not to lease out gas blocks to international oil companies.
They gave their opinion at the day long central representatives' meeting of the national committee at Tajul Auditorium at Moni Singh-Farhad Memorial Trust Bhaban in the capital.
The National Committee to Protect Oil, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports called the meeting to discuss its next action programme to press its seven demands.
The national committee convener, Sheikh Muhammad Shaheedullah, who chaired said that the committee would continue with its movement until it could secure the mineral resources of the country.
He said that there was no scope for defeat.
Shaheedullah requested the district representatives to work for the success of the committee's long march from Dhaka to Sunetra in Sunamganj from October 28 to 31 and the grand rally in the capital city scheduled for November 26.
The national committee member secretary Anu Muhammad said that Bangladesh would lose its natural resources by signing unequal deals with the IOCs.
'We don't want Bangladesh to suffer the fate of Nigeria which lost its natural resources to multi national companies,' Anu said.
He asked the government to refrain from adopting the so called 'Model Production and Sharing Contract' for the onshore gas blocks designed to give upper hand to the IOCs.
He said that the national committee would work for forging national unity to save Bangladesh's natural resources from plunder by the IOCs.
Mohammad Altaf Hossain of Dinajpur, Manas Nandi of Chittagong, Abul Kalam Azad of Rajshahi, Shahdat Hossain of Rangpur and Jinnatul Islam of Bogra, vented their views at the discussions attended by all the 42 district representatives of the national committee.
National committee leaders Rashed Khan Menon, Mjahidul Islam Selim, Khalequzzaman, Bimal Biswas, Tipu Biswas, Mosharraf Hossain Nannu, Saiful Huq, Ruhin Hossain Prince, Bazlur Rashid Firoz, Ragib Ahsan Munna, Zonayed Saki, Babul Biswas took part in the discussions besides others.
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