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The Ganajagaran Mancha activists will form a human chain on May 4 in front of Parliament to press for outlawing Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party.
The platform’s spokesperson Imran H Sarker made the announcement on Sunday at Shahbagh after a rally there.
He said they would also stage a workers’ rally on May 1 at the Shahbagh intersection.
The other programmes include holding countrywide mass communication campaign from Apr 20 to May 4.
On Apr 27, the central leaders will exchange views with Mancha representatives from across the nation in Dhaka.
A sit-in demonstration will be organised in front of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs at 11am on Apr 29 demanding initiation of the process to impose the ban on Jamaat.
Earlier in the day, the youths held a three-minute ‘harmony bond’ to promote communal amity on Pahela Boishakh and renewed their demand of death to convicted war criminals.
One of the organisers of the movement, blog activist Maruf Rasul, started the countdown to the programme before the clock was about to strike 5:30pm.
Ganajagaran Mancha took part in the Pahela Boishakh celebrations at the Ramna Batamul and attended the ‘Mangal Shobhajatra’ at 9am.
The crowd also satged a countrywide Mangal Pradip lighting programme ‘Aloker Ei Jhornadhara’ (this fountain of light) at 7:30pm ‘against all dark forces’.
Everyone has been requested to light either a ‘Mangal Pradip’ or at least a candle.
Speaking at the rally, Imran Sarker wished the crowd a happy Bengali new year and remembered those who lost their lives in the 2001 bomb attack at the Ramana Batamul on this day.
"The trial of those behind the attack is yet to take place," he said.
Blaming Jamaat for the attack, he alleged that the party along with its student affiliate Islami Chhatra Shibir left no stone unturned to stop the cultural movement.
"That's why we made the call to outlaw Jamaat immediately," he added.
He paid tribute to those who were killed in a recent attack by the activists of Jamaat and Hifazat-e Islam, allegedly backed by the right-wing party, in Chittagong's Fatikchharhi.
Sarker demanded the release of the four bloggers detained recently for allegedly hurting people’s religious feelings.
"They can be tried under the existing law if they did any crime. The state is yet to prove the charges against them," he said.
Fiction writer Selina Hossain said, "We have to remember Ganajagaran Mancha is a place of freedom and resistance."
The protesters at Shahbagh had been pressing for maximum penalty for all convicted war criminals and a ban on the Jamaat for its war-time atrocities in 1971 in an attempt to prevent the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent nation.
Later, the movement spread across the whole nation.
A Chittagong-based radical group Hifazat-e Islam, however, has been opposing the Mancha alleging some 'non-Islamic' activities were being conducted during the movement.
The Mancha has rejected the allegation saying it is not their plan to hurt anyone's religious sentiments.
He said they would also stage a workers’ rally on May 1 at the Shahbagh intersection.
The other programmes include holding countrywide mass communication campaign from Apr 20 to May 4.
On Apr 27, the central leaders will exchange views with Mancha representatives from across the nation in Dhaka.
A sit-in demonstration will be organised in front of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs at 11am on Apr 29 demanding initiation of the process to impose the ban on Jamaat.
Earlier in the day, the youths held a three-minute ‘harmony bond’ to promote communal amity on Pahela Boishakh and renewed their demand of death to convicted war criminals.
One of the organisers of the movement, blog activist Maruf Rasul, started the countdown to the programme before the clock was about to strike 5:30pm.
Ganajagaran Mancha took part in the Pahela Boishakh celebrations at the Ramna Batamul and attended the ‘Mangal Shobhajatra’ at 9am.
The crowd also satged a countrywide Mangal Pradip lighting programme ‘Aloker Ei Jhornadhara’ (this fountain of light) at 7:30pm ‘against all dark forces’.
Everyone has been requested to light either a ‘Mangal Pradip’ or at least a candle.
Speaking at the rally, Imran Sarker wished the crowd a happy Bengali new year and remembered those who lost their lives in the 2001 bomb attack at the Ramana Batamul on this day.
"The trial of those behind the attack is yet to take place," he said.
Blaming Jamaat for the attack, he alleged that the party along with its student affiliate Islami Chhatra Shibir left no stone unturned to stop the cultural movement.
"That's why we made the call to outlaw Jamaat immediately," he added.
He paid tribute to those who were killed in a recent attack by the activists of Jamaat and Hifazat-e Islam, allegedly backed by the right-wing party, in Chittagong's Fatikchharhi.
Sarker demanded the release of the four bloggers detained recently for allegedly hurting people’s religious feelings.
"They can be tried under the existing law if they did any crime. The state is yet to prove the charges against them," he said.
Fiction writer Selina Hossain said, "We have to remember Ganajagaran Mancha is a place of freedom and resistance."
The protesters at Shahbagh had been pressing for maximum penalty for all convicted war criminals and a ban on the Jamaat for its war-time atrocities in 1971 in an attempt to prevent the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent nation.
Later, the movement spread across the whole nation.
A Chittagong-based radical group Hifazat-e Islam, however, has been opposing the Mancha alleging some 'non-Islamic' activities were being conducted during the movement.
The Mancha has rejected the allegation saying it is not their plan to hurt anyone's religious sentiments.
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