It urged all rail, road and waterway transport owners and workers to cooperate and make the blockade a success.
Defying the radical Islamist groups' programme to resist the Shahbagh protesters, it will hold its pre-announced grand rally at Projonmo Chattar in the capital at 4:00pm tomorrow.
Imran H Sarker, spokesperson for the Gonojagoron Mancha, at a press briefing in the evening said, "It is very unfortunate that a vested interest group declared a long march targeting our grand rally."
He thanked the 23 pro-liberation organizations who have called a 24-hour hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
to oppose the "dark forces".
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!...
Gonojagoron Mancha representatives yesterday submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister's Office, demanding a ban on Jamaat-Shibir politics.
Activists of the Gonojagoron Mancha brought out a procession from Shahbagh in the capital around midday.
Imran H Sarker told the PM in the memorandum, "On behalf of the Gonojagoron Mancha, we demand that this organization [Jamaat-e-Islami
...
The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
] that stands against humanity be banned.
"There is no place for a party of war criminals in a Bangladesh built upon the values of the Liberation War."
The movement has remained non-violent despite the deaths of some of its activists and arrests of some bloggers affiliated with it, Imran said. It will not leave the streets until its demands are met, he added.
He urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...to respond to the voices and sentiments of the pro-liberation youths.
The announcement for yesterday's programme came at a rally on March 26, against the backdrop of government inaction in initiating the process of the ban despite an ultimatum to it.