Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to enforce a countrywide daylong hartal on Thursday.
However, Chapainababganj district will remain out of the purview of the shutdown programme.
In a statement on Friday, Jamaat acting secretary general Dr Shafiqur Rahman had announced the shutdown programme for Monday protesting the capital punishment against its ameer Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami in the Chittagong 10-truck arms smuggling case.
Later, the party deferred the shutdown programme to Thursday due to the second phase of Biswa Ijtema and Saraswati Puja.
Besides, Jamaat has excluded Chapainawabganj district from Thursday’s hartal to let the local Hindus to celebrate a religious festival following a request by the community as Hindu pilgrims will arrive at Tortipur under Shibganj upazila on Thursday for Ganga Snan or bathe in the Ganges River, considered holy by Hindus.
The Islamist party, however, will stage ‘peaceful’ demonstrations across the country protesting what the party said the government’s design to kill its ameer Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami.
Meanwhile, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has taken all-out efforts to prevent any untoward incident during the hartal hours in the capital on Thursday.
A senior DMP officer said around additional 8,000 policemen will be deployed in the capital from 5:00 am to ensure security in the city.
Besides, plainclothes police will also be put on alert with still and video cameras at different strategic points to track down troublemakers examining the footage.
Source: UNB Connect
