Landless people besiege DC office
Members of about 50/60 landless families, living at Hazipur village under Pirganj upazila, besieged the deputy commissioner office yesterday, demanding allocation of khas land.
They also submitted a memorandum to deputy commissioner Muhammad Shahiduzzaman in favour of their demand.
The programmes followed a discussion where district unit president of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) Merazul Hossain, Workers' Party leader advocate Imran Hossain Chowdhury, president of Thakurgaon Press Club Akhter Hossain Raza and landless people's leader Kalachand Roy spoke.
The speakers said the landless people have been living on 5.88 acres of land on the bank of Tongipukur for 20 years.
They also said more families were becoming landless every day due to the land grabbers and local influential people.
During the last one year, several attacks were launched on the landless people in a bid to evict them from their land showing fake documents, they added.
Earlier on April 26, the landless people also besieged upzila nirbahi office for the same demand.
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