Hartal observed in dists with some stray incidents
Monday, 28 June 2010
Our correspondents
KHULNA, June 27: The dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by BNP observed in Khulna, Barisal, Bagerhat, Satkhira and Jessore peacefully.
Six persons were arrested from different points of Khulna city for picketing.
A good number of rickshaws and motorised vehicles were seen plying on the city streets defying the hartal.
The commercial banks and other financial institutions made transaction through their back doors. Shops and business establishments were closed.
Educational institutions, government, semi-government and autonomous body offices were open but attendances were thin. But buses and mini buses were seen plying on the Rupsha-Mongla Road during the hartal hour.
Khulna Metropolitan Police said that no untoward incident took place during the hartal. Railway and river communications to and from Khulna were normal while road communications from Khulna to different destinations were snapped.
Mills, factories and other industrial units in Khalishpur and Daulatpur operated normally.
According to our Mongla correspondent, loading and unloading activities were carried out normally during the hartal. No untoward incident was, however, reported from anywhere in the town.
UNB adds: The hartal was observed in Barisal with some stray incidents.
There was no picketing against the hartal and city roads were under the control of the police.
BNP Organizing Secretary, local lawmaker and former Barisal City Corporation Mayor Advocate Mujibur Rahman Sarwar and 19 others were injured as police charged baton while they were picketing in local Judge Court area at 12:30pm.
Of the inured, conditions of Advocate Kamrul Ahsan Shahin, city BNP joint convener and former public prosecutor, Advocate Shahid Hossain, city BNP convening committee member and former APP, Advocate Mohiul Islam Taher, city Jamaat leader, Rafikul Islam Shahin, city Jubo Dal president, and Nuruzaman, photojournalist of Kaler Kantha, were stated to be critical.
BNP sources said police arrested at least 20 leaders and activists of the BNP and its front organisations.
Police forcibly ousted female leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations from their party office and took control of the office and surrounding areas of Aswani Kumar Hall at about 10am.
BNP lawmaker Sarwar alleged that police and local administration acted like ruling party cadres.
Activists of BNP and Jamaat brought out separate processions and held rallies at different areas of the city in the morning and afternoon.
Most of the rickshaws and motorised vehicles on the city roads stopped plying after the picket blocked the roads by creating barricades with trees, benches, bamboos and burning tires in Nazirer Pole, Nathullabad and Rupatali bus terminal areas.
Attendance in judicial and administrative offices and other institutions were very thin.
Attendance in the educational institutions were also very poor.
Shops, super markets and showrooms were closed and transactions in banks and financial institutions were limited and operated by closing front doors.
Barisal Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dr Abdur Rahim said that police acted only to maintain law and order.
According to our Jessore correspondent, the police arrested a total of 21 BNP leaders and activists including Aleya Siddiqui, member of Jessore New Town union council, Raihan Siddiqui Probal, student welfare secretary, Jessore district unit BNP and Maruf Hossain, general secretary, Ramnagar union council unit BNP from different places during hartal hours.
However, the hartal was observed in the town and seven other upazilas peacefully.
KHULNA, June 27: The dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by BNP observed in Khulna, Barisal, Bagerhat, Satkhira and Jessore peacefully.
Six persons were arrested from different points of Khulna city for picketing.
A good number of rickshaws and motorised vehicles were seen plying on the city streets defying the hartal.
The commercial banks and other financial institutions made transaction through their back doors. Shops and business establishments were closed.
Educational institutions, government, semi-government and autonomous body offices were open but attendances were thin. But buses and mini buses were seen plying on the Rupsha-Mongla Road during the hartal hour.
Khulna Metropolitan Police said that no untoward incident took place during the hartal. Railway and river communications to and from Khulna were normal while road communications from Khulna to different destinations were snapped.
Mills, factories and other industrial units in Khalishpur and Daulatpur operated normally.
According to our Mongla correspondent, loading and unloading activities were carried out normally during the hartal. No untoward incident was, however, reported from anywhere in the town.
UNB adds: The hartal was observed in Barisal with some stray incidents.
There was no picketing against the hartal and city roads were under the control of the police.
BNP Organizing Secretary, local lawmaker and former Barisal City Corporation Mayor Advocate Mujibur Rahman Sarwar and 19 others were injured as police charged baton while they were picketing in local Judge Court area at 12:30pm.
Of the inured, conditions of Advocate Kamrul Ahsan Shahin, city BNP joint convener and former public prosecutor, Advocate Shahid Hossain, city BNP convening committee member and former APP, Advocate Mohiul Islam Taher, city Jamaat leader, Rafikul Islam Shahin, city Jubo Dal president, and Nuruzaman, photojournalist of Kaler Kantha, were stated to be critical.
BNP sources said police arrested at least 20 leaders and activists of the BNP and its front organisations.
Police forcibly ousted female leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations from their party office and took control of the office and surrounding areas of Aswani Kumar Hall at about 10am.
BNP lawmaker Sarwar alleged that police and local administration acted like ruling party cadres.
Activists of BNP and Jamaat brought out separate processions and held rallies at different areas of the city in the morning and afternoon.
Most of the rickshaws and motorised vehicles on the city roads stopped plying after the picket blocked the roads by creating barricades with trees, benches, bamboos and burning tires in Nazirer Pole, Nathullabad and Rupatali bus terminal areas.
Attendance in judicial and administrative offices and other institutions were very thin.
Attendance in the educational institutions were also very poor.
Shops, super markets and showrooms were closed and transactions in banks and financial institutions were limited and operated by closing front doors.
Barisal Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dr Abdur Rahim said that police acted only to maintain law and order.
According to our Jessore correspondent, the police arrested a total of 21 BNP leaders and activists including Aleya Siddiqui, member of Jessore New Town union council, Raihan Siddiqui Probal, student welfare secretary, Jessore district unit BNP and Maruf Hossain, general secretary, Ramnagar union council unit BNP from different places during hartal hours.
However, the hartal was observed in the town and seven other upazilas peacefully.