14-party calls hartal in Bagmara on Dec 19

The programmes were announced at a press conference here on Thursday, where Jahangir's wife Anwara Begum, mother Jobeda Khatun and brother Alamgir Hossain also demanded trial of the killers and sought security in the face of alleged threats by them.

The press conference was addressed by veteran Awami League leader Sarder Amzad Hossain, Workers Party Politburo member Fazley Hossain Badsha, Rajshahi city unit AL general secretary AHM Kharizzaman Liton, district AL general secretary Omer Faruque Chowdhury and other local leaders of the 14-party alliance.

Family members of Jahangir said they are being threatened by cadres of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) and urged the government to take effective steps against them.

They alleged that during Liberation War, freedom fighters set up a camp at their house and so they became targets of Rajakers (collaborators of Pakistan army) at that time. Many of the then Rajakers in Bagmara later turned into PBCP cadres, they claimed.

During JMB (Islamist fundamentalist organisation Jamaatul Mujadidin Bangladesh) 'operation' in Bagmara, they also acted as collaborators of its chief Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, they claimed.

Earlier, the same gang killed Jahangir's uncle Abul Hossain Sarker, a businessman, they alleged at the press conference.