Tree plantation begins at Azimpur graveyard
Abu Naser Khan, convenor of the movement, inaugurated the programme by planting a sapling.
Naser also asked the locals to plant saplings at the graves of their respective relatives in the graveyard on July 14.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. He also urged to turn the tree plantation programme at all the graveyards of the country into a social movement.
Earlier the organisation formed a human chain in front of the south gate of Azimpur graveyard at 11:00am demanding 'road inside BDR not within the graveyard'.
Meanwhile, people who have their relatives laid to rest at the graveyard gathered at the graveyard from 11:00am and demonstrated inside the graveyard against lawmaker Pintu.
They had been demonstrating for some days protesting Pintu's constructions inside the graveyard.