Leaders and activists of the Awami League and its front bodies did not pay tributes to the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his 50th death anniversary.
No leaders and activists under the banner of the League or its front bodies were seen attempting to enter the blocked premises at Road 32 in Dhanmondi from dawn to dusk to pay tributes to their leader. But a handful of individuals claiming themselves followers of Mujib went there individually and were beaten by people and handed over to the police.聽
Dhanmondi police station officer-in-charge Kaw Shaw Knee said that people handed over seven Awami League suspects to the police since Thursday evening and four were released after taking undertaking from them.
鈥極ne would be produced before the court as he is accused in four cases. We are scrutinising two others detained in the afternoon,鈥� the OC added.聽
According to the police, Zakir Hossain Babu, who is in custody as an accused in our cases, is an AL activist hailing from Bhola.
The police blocked both sides of Mujib鈥檚 residence and they were seen guarding the gates.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ramna Division deputy commissioner Masud Alam told 抖阴精品 that they had taken all-out security measures to avoid any untoward situation.
鈥楽ome agitated people beat Awami League suspects. We took them into custody and released them after scrutiny,鈥� the DC added.
In the afternoon, a rickshaw puller came to the Dhanmondi 32 house with some flowers to pay tributes to Mujib when agitating people beat and handed him over to the police.
They damaged the rickshaw and it was left at the entrance of the Mujib residence road.
A woman on Friday morning came with some flowers to pay tributes but was forced to go back by agitating people.
The Dhamondi OC said that they were scrutnising the rickshaw puller鈥檚 political affiliation.
People of the Awami League and its front bodies brought out processions and chanted slogans on rooftops, along highways and roads and at other places in a few districts, including Brahmanbaria and Khagrachari, mostly on Friday early hours, covering their faces with masks or helmets, according to Bangladesh Awami League verified Facebook page.聽 At some places, they also held milad mahfils for Muzib.
The Detective Branch in Dhaka city arrested six leaders and activists in the 24 hours till Friday evening at different places in the capital.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, were killed while his government was overthrown by a disgruntled section of the Bangladesh Army officers 50 years ago on this day.
The Sheikh鈥檚 two daughters -- Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana -- who were abroad, survived the bloody political changeover.
In the politically divided Bangladesh, the Awami League, whenever in power since 1996, used to observe the day as 鈥榥ational mourning day鈥�, while most others passed the day with calculated political indifference.
This year, after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 authoritarian regime in the face of a bloodied student-mass uprising on August 5 past year, the interim government of the Peace Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus suspended in May the political activities of the League and its affiliated organisations until the trial of League leaders responsible for mass-killing in the July-August uprising.
The interim government also scrapped the 鈥榩ublic holiday鈥� on August 15 as the day was observed during the Awami League regime.聽
On Thursday evening, several hundred people were seen gathering apparently to resist Awami League from holding programmes marking the day after a call from his grandson Sajeeb Wajed Joy, son of deposed prime minister Sheikh Haisna, to all party members to pay tributes at Dhanmondi 32 residence, which was partially demolished by mobs after the fall of the authoritarian AL regime in early August in the past year.
According to witness, the BNP, its student body Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, youth body Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, and workers body Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal chanted slogans on BNP founder Ziaur Rahman and his son BNP acting chair Tarique Rahman around the Mujib residence with processions on Thursday evening and in the early hours of Friday.
Mizanur Rahman, a private company employee, said that he came to Dhanmondi 32 so that no AL activists could pay tributes there.
After Hasina killed thousands of people, how can Joy make such a statement? Mizanur asked.
The National Citizen Party installed a sound system and screen to show July uprising incidents after taking permission from the police, said DMP Ramna DC Masud.
On Friday morning, some Hindi songs were played on a big sound box while patriotic songs were played in the afternoon.
