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Download PDF Electricity starved people of Sonargaon in Narayanganj blockaded the Dhaka-Chittagong highway for an hour yesterday and staged a sit-in in front of a local power office while residents of Shanir Akhra in the city held a rally demanding uninterrupted power supply.
Hundreds of vehicles were stranded on both sides of the highway when agitating people under the banner of Sonargaon Nagarik Committee blockaded it.
Police, reaching the spot, dispersed the demonstrators. After being forced to move, the agitators staged a sit-in in front of the local power distribution office. The law enforcers drove them away from there too.
Meanwhile, the residents of Shanir Akhra in the capital once again vowed to continue their movement for uninterrupted power supply, water supply and to realise their 10-point demand.
Several hundred residents of Shanir Akhra and its adjacent areas joined the Demra-Shyampur Pani O Bidyut Sangram Parishad organised protest rally in Dania area with candles in their hands.
The leaders of the Parishad said the government did not implement the promises it made when they barricaded Dhaka-Chittagong highway on May 5.
“Rather, the government filed six cases against 19 activists and leaders of the Parishad and has been harassing them ever since,” said its convenor Mosleh Uddin Masud.
The locals had barricaded the highway for 19 hours and later removed the road-blocks for the commuters, but government did not pay heed, he added.
The Parishad’s 20 local units will demonstrate in the evenings until October 20. They will also lay siege to one of the power distribution offices in the area.
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