The Awami League and its front wings on Saturday distributed leaflets in Dhaka city and some other places across the country on a limited scale as part of the party鈥檚 month-long programme demanding the resignation chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus.
Small groups of AL activists were seen distributing leaflets at places in the聽聽 morning and in the afternoon while some of them also came out with leaflets in the early hours.聽
Banned Bangladesh Chhatra League鈥檚 former central leaders distributed leaflets in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan and Banani area where its Dhaka University unit former president Sheikh Sohel Rana Tipu was seen.
Leaflets were also distributed in the capital鈥檚 Adabor area.聽
AL leaders and activists distributed leaflets in front the National Press Club and its adjacent areas at about 8:30am in the morning.
AL and its front bodies distributed leaflets Gazipur, Narsingdi, Jhenaidah, Kusthia and Chattogram city.
The party鈥檚 month long programme include distributing leaflets from February 1 to February 5, protest rallies and processions on February 6 and February 10, road blockade on February 16, and countrywide dawn to dusk general strike on February 18, the AL shared the information in a post on its verified Facebook page December 28.
The Awami League which was ousted from power amid a student-led mass uprising on August 5, 2024 announced the month-long protest programme at a time when most of the party鈥檚 senior leaders are either in jail or in hiding.
Terming the interim government as 鈥榠llegal and unconstitutional鈥�, the AL in the Facebook post claimed that they would protest against the attack on religious and national minorities, skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, arrest of several thousand AL leaders and activists, and murders and enforced disappearances, and demanding the release of all political prisoners.
Professor Yunus-led interim government took power on August 8, 2024, three days after the ouster of the AL regime and the overthrown prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 fleeing to India on August 5, 2024.
According to the latest government data, 834 people were killed in the July-August uprising.
