The organization claimed that it would mobilise several lakh workers and supporters at Amin Bazar, Abdullahpur, Demra, Jatrabari, and at Kanchpur, Postogola and Babubazar bridges to make the Dhaka siege programme a success.
The organization has recently been campaigning to realise its 13-point demand that includes stern punishment to "atheist leaders" of the Shahbagh movement.
Hefajat Secretary General Junaid Babunagri told The Daily Star yesterday that their programme would begin at daybreak. He said Hefajat's ameer Shah Ahmad Shafi would say when to end the siege.
With the country's main opposition BNP rendering its support to the siege, Hefajat-e Islam yesterday rejected the prime minister's call to call off the programme.
It said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. 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. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
had not given any assurance of meeting its 13-point demand.
"In her speech, there was an effort to confuse the nation through contradictory and wrong interpretations [of the demands]," said Mufti Fayezullah, joint secretary general of Hefajat-e Islam.
"That's why, we have decided to continue with the May-5 Dhaka blockade programme," he said.
Additional Secretary Khandakar Mainuddin of the home ministry said law enforcers would cooperate with Hefajat in holding peaceful rallies at the entry points of the capital.
However,
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Hefajat's appeal for permission to hold a rally in front of Baitul Mukarram mosque this afternoon was turned down.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hassan Mahmood Khandker, who yesterday had a meeting with different deputy commissioners of Dhaka and superintendents of police of different districts surrounding the capital, told The Daily Star that public life would not be disrupted during the siege.
Asked whether people would be able to get in and out of the capital, the IGP said they would try their best to make sure people do not have to suffer.