The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Police dispersed a human chain organised by Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, youth wing of BNP, in front of the Special Tribunal Court located at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in the city yesterday.

Leaders and activists of the Jubo Dal led by its acting president Mia Mohammad Selim and Acting general secretary Adv Abdus Salam Azad gathered at 10:00am in front of the Sangsad Bhaban to form a human chain as a part of its programme to press home its 7-point demand.

However, they could not form the human chain in the face of the police resistance.

Acting general secretary Adv Abdus Salam Azad said Police obstructed them to form the human chain and tore their banners at about 10:30am saying that there was no permission to form a human chain here.

Jubo Dal vice president Abul Hossain Khan and organising secretary Khairul Kabir Khokan, among other leaders, were present.

It will also form human chain in the other five cities on July 10.

The wing recently announced programme schedules demanding unconditional release of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and chief of Jamaat-e Islami Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami and withdrawal of political and motivated cases, sending Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko abroad for better medical treatment, release of Jubo Dal general secretary Adv Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, its former president Mirza Abbas and Chhatra Dal president Azizul Bari Helal, government's fair deals to all political parties and holding of free and fair general election within October 30 after lifting the state of emergency and opening of the BNP central office and bringing down prices of all essentials including fuel within the purchasing capacity of common people.