CPB lays a siege to DC's office
'Ensure food, work in monga-affected areas'
Our Correspondent, Gaibandha
The Communist Party of Bangladesh brought out a procession in the town and laid a siege to the Deputy Commissioner's office on Monday demanding government measures to face the monga and diarrhoea situation in northern districts. CPB President Monjurul Ahsan Khan and other central leaders of the party led the programmes. Addressing the crowd during the siege of DC's office, Monjurul Ahsan said the BNP-Jamaat alliance government is busy with Iftar parties and the Prime Minister is performing Umrah while thousands of people are virtually starving in the monga-affected northern districts. A demand by opposition political parties to open gruel kitchens has been ignored by the government. This proves the government does not care people's sufferings. It has no right to stay in power, he said. People are dying from doarrhoea only due to lack of proper steps by the government, he said. The government which can not supply saline to poor people should step down on its own, he said. Earlier, processionists paraded streets of the town carrying banners and festoons and chanting various slogans demanding food and work in monga-affected areas. A memorandum was also handed over to the Deputy Commissioner for transmission to the Prime Minister.
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