Landless people agitate, place 8-point demand
Landless people bring out a procession in Rangpur town yesterday to press home their eight-point demand including allocation of khas land. They later submitted a memorandum to the prime minister through the deputy commissioner.Photo: STAR
Hundreds of landless people of the district demonstrated in the town yesterday morning to press their 8-point demand including allocation of khas land. Earlier, the landless people, under the banner of Rangpur Zila Bhumihin Sangram Parishad, brought out a huge procession. The processionists paraded the main roads of the town. Later they gathered at the deputy commissioner's (DC) office premises with banners and festoons. Idris Ali and Ranjit Kumar Sarker, president and secretary of the Parishad spoke at the rally there. At the rally, leaders of several organisations urged the government to allot khas land among the landless people immediately. They said allocation of khas land was an election manifesto of the Grand Alliance government. They also alleged that, the government, instead of giving them khas land was trying to evict the hapless people from khas land. They warned of non-stop movement if the government failed to meet their demands in three months. After the rally, they submitted a memorandum to the prime minister through the deputy commissioner. Contacted, Idris Ali told this correspondent that the landless people are worried due to the vested property bill recently okayed by the Jatiya Sangsad. "The government must rehabilitate the affected landless people before implementing any law," he said.
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