The convoy is expected to grow to around 1,500 vehicles as participants from different districts join along the route, Jamaat Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar said at a press conference at the party’s central office today (30 October).
A press conference held at Jamaat-e-Islami’s central office. Photo: TBS
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A press conference held at Jamaat-e-Islami’s central office. Photo: TBS
The Jamaat-e-Islami-led 11-party alliance will launch a 410-kilometre long march from Dhaka to Kushtia via Khulna, Jashore, and Jhenaidah tomorrow (31 October), with around 600 vehicles expected to take part initially.
The convoy is expected to grow to around 1,500 vehicles as participants from different districts join along the route, Jamaat Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar said at a press conference at the party’s central office today (30 October).
He said the programme would begin with an inaugural rally at 7am at the south gate of the National Mosque Baitul Mukarram. Leaders of the 11-party alliance will address the rally before the convoy sets off at 8am.
The convoy will travel through Shariatpur, Madaripur, Bhanga in Faridpur, Gopalganj, and Fakirhat in Bagerhat before entering Khulna via the Rupsha Bridge. It will then proceed through Jashore and Jhenaidah before reaching Shaheed Abrar Fahad Stadium in Kushtia for the concluding rally at 8:30pm.
Six roadside rallies will be held along the route. The first will take place at Nawdoba in Jajira, Shariatpur, at 9am, followed by one at the Katakhali intersection in Fakirhat, Bagerhat, at 11am.
Further rallies are scheduled at Babri Chattar in Khulna city at 12:30pm, Swadhinata Chattar near the bus stand in Phultala at 2pm, Murali intersection in Jashore at 3:30pm, and Jhenaidah bus terminal at 5pm.
Porwar said the long march was being organised to press for the implementation of the referendum’s verdict, justice for the July massacre, and solutions to shortages of electricity, fuel, gas, and fertiliser.
The alliance is also demanding measures to control prices of essential commodities, end corruption, extortion, and land grabbing, improve law and order, and stop political bias in administration.
The programme marks the third phase of the alliance’s long march campaign to realise seven public demands and protest against what it describes as the government’s failures and broken promises.
Porwar said this long march would be the largest of the three programmes held so far.
Leaders, activists, and supporters from 19 districts, including Dhaka and neighbouring areas, as well as Khulna, Jashore, Jhenaidah, and Kushtia, are expected to join the march, he added.
Porwar said the organisers had coordinated with the relevant authorities, including the police administrations of the Dhaka and Khulna ranges, deputy commissioners, and superintendents of police. They had received assurances of cooperation from different levels of the administration, he added.
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