11-party alliance calls mass rally over gas crisis, inflated electricity bills

The 11-party alliance has expressed deep concern over soaring prices of essential commodities, the severe gas crisis, inflated electricity bills and what it described as a sharp deterioration in law and order across the country.

The alliance took the decisions at a meeting held at the residence of the Leader of the Opposition on Minto Road in the capital on Monday evening.

Leader of the Opposition and Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman chaired the meeting.

The meeting brought together National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam MP, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Col (retd) Oli Ahmad Bir Bikram, Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish Ameer Allama Mamunul Haque, Bangladesh Nezam-e-Islam Party Acting Ameer Maulana Abdul Qayyum Subhani, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar, Assistant Secretary General Dr Hamidur Rahman Azad, AB Party Chairman Mujibur Rahman Manju, Bangladesh Labour Party Chairman Dr Mostafizur Rahman Iran, JAGPA Vice-President and Spokesperson Engineer Rashed Pradhan, NCP Member Secretary Akhtar Hossain MP, Chief Coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary and other senior alliance leaders.

After the meeting, the alliance announced a public rally at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque at 10:00am on 5 August. It said the rally would announce its next phase of action to address public suffering and press its political demands.

The alliance also announced sit-in programmes in front of electricity and gas offices in all metropolitan cities and district headquarters on 6 August.

In Dhaka, alliance leaders and supporters will hold a sit-in at Muktangan from 11:00am before submitting a memorandum to the Secretariat.