Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh is set to stage its ‘Dhaka Siege’ programme on Sunday and vowed to make it a complete success despite repeated requests by the government to withdraw the demonstration programme.Hefajat leaders said their workers and supporters will take control over all the entry points to Dhaka after Fajr prayers tomorrow.
They will block roads at points like Babu Bazar, Demra, Jatrabari, Kanchpur, Shanirakhra, Mirpur, Badda-Rampura, Amin Bazar, Tongi, different points at Gazipur, Abdullahpur and Arichaghat from shortly before dawn on Sunday.
The Islamist organisation asked its supporters to join the programme with tasbih, jainamaj, miswakh and dry foods.
Hefajat that staged a massive showdown at the city’s Shapla Chattar on April 6 also called upon the owners and the workers of launches and other transports to carry its leaders and activists to Dhaka and stop plying those on both road and river routes on Sunday (May 5).
Hefajat announced the Dhaka Siege programme from its April 6 rally to realise its 13-point demand.
Earlier, briefing reporters at the office of Dhaka City unit Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh in the city’s Lalbagh area on Friday, Hefajat’s Dhaka City convener Maulana Nur Hossain Kashemi said the rights of all workers will be implemented if the 13-point demand is met.
Khashemi said thousands of Tawhidi janata have already reached Dhaka and many more are ready to join the much-hyped Dhaka Siege programme.
“The Dhaka siege programe will be made successful peaceful at any cost,” he said. UNB
