Leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Awami League, activities of which are now banned, on Friday brought out flash processions in the Dhaka city鈥檚 Tejgaon and Dhanmondi areas, demanding resignation of the interim government.
The interim government led by Professor Muhammad Yunus assumed office after the ouster of the authoritarian Awami League regime on August 5 past year in a mass uprising.
Police detained eight people from the processions on Friday.
Tejgaon I/A police station officer-in-charge Md Aslam Hossain said that more than a hundred people gathered and brought out a procession at the Nabisko crossing in Tejgaon industrial area right after the Jumma prayers at about 2:00pm.
鈥極n information, we reached the spot and resisted the procession. At that time, seven protesters were held. The detainees were handed over to the Detective Branch for questioning,鈥� he added.
Earlier, at about 6:30am on Friday, AL leaders and activists tried to bring out a flash procession at the GMG crossing in Tejgaon industrial area, where police detained one person, the police official said.
An AL leader told 抖阴精品 that the Dhaka metropolitan鈥檚 north AL unit organised the processions in which more than 1,500 people participated after the Jumma prayers.
About 15-20 activists of the AL brought out another procession at Dhanmondi and later had fled the scene before the police reached there, according to the Dhanmondi police.
No arrests were made following Friday鈥檚 Dhanmondi procession, they said.
Earlier, on September 2, some activists of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student front of the AL, brought out a flash procession in the capital鈥檚 Banani area.
On August 31 evening, some activists of the banned BCL brought out a flash procession in Dhanmondi area and had left the scene before police reached there.
Meanwhile, teams of the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested eight leaders and activists of the AL and its wing organisations, including the party鈥檚 former lawmaker from the Nilphamari-3 constituency, Saddam Hossain Pavel, on September 4 for alleged planning and participating in flash processions in the capital.
Between September 3 night to September 4 morning, the DMP鈥檚 Detective Branch arrested eight leaders and activists, including the alleged planner of the AL鈥檚 flash procession at Dhanmondi, of the party and its affiliated organisations.
The Detective Branch teams arrested former AL lawmaker Saddam Hossain Pavel and seven activists of the AL during raids across Dhaka on Thursday night, said a DMP press release issued on Friday.
The DMP in its release said that the arrestees had been conspiring to destabilise the country by disrupting law and order and attempting to spread panic among people through flash processions at different places in Dhaka.
On October 23 past year, the interim government banned the BCL under the Anti-Terrorism Act on allegations of its involvement in breaching public security in various ways in the past 15 years.
In May this year, the government banned all activities of Awami League until trials of its leaders and activists for allegedly perpetrating atrocities in the July uprising which led to the ouster of the authoritarian AL regime on August 5, 2024.
