Huge rally demanding electoral reforms

A citizens' body procession in Rajshahi city yesterday for polls reforms. PHOTO: STAR

The demonstrators also protested the price spiral of essentials and crises of power and water.

The processionists started from Shaheb Bazar At 11 am and converged again to the same place after parading the city streets. People from all walks of life joined the procession.

The processionists carried placards reading Justice Hasan, please feel embarrassed, no election under Hasan-Aziz, Khaleda-Nizami's development brings hunger for countrymen, champion in corruption etc.

The rally was held at the Zero Pint with SNA convenor Prof Shafiquer Rahman Badsha in the chair.

Ransahahi unit president of Bangabandhu Parishad and former Rajshahi University vice-chancellor Prof Abdul Khalek, Sammilito Sangskritik Jote general secretary Dr Sayed Shafiqul Alam, College Teachers Association central vice president Prof Saidur Rahman, Rajshahi Union of Journalists president Hasan Millat addressed the rally, among others.

Mukhtijoddha Sangsad Rajshahi city commander Shafiquer Rahman Raja, its leader Yasin Ali, Natore SNA president Sukhamoy Dev, Rajshahi city Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee secretary Prof Kamruzzaman also spoke at the rally.

The speakers alleged that the BNP-Jamaat alliance government in last five years allowed unbridled corruption in all sectors, distorted the history of the Liberation War, gave rise to Islamist militants and politicised the administration.

They are now trying to cling to power by holding a farcical election by appointing their men as chief of the caretaker government.

They congratulated Dr Yunus for making the country proud by winning the Nobel Prize.