11-Party Alliance announces nationwide protests over gas, electricity crisis
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৬-৮-২০২৬ দুপুর ৪:১৬
11-Party Alliance announces nationwide protests over gas, electricity crisis
The 11-Party Alliance today staged a sit-in in Dhaka, protesting the ongoing gas and electricity crisis and pressing a 10-point charter of demands. They also announced a series of protest programmes from September to November.
The programme began at Zero Point in Paltan before leaders and activists marched towards the Secretariat, where police stopped them near Gate No. 1.
Addressing the gathering, Opposition Leader and Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman announced the alliance's next phase of protests.
The programmes include a long march from Dhaka to Chattogram on September 5, another to Rangpur on September 19, a Dhaka-Khulna-Jashore-Kushtia-Dhaka long march on October 10, a rail journey to Sylhet on October 24, and a grand rally in Dhaka on November 14.
Shafiqur said the alliance would continue its movement until its demands are met and warned that any attempt to obstruct the programmes would only strengthen the protests.
He also alleged that the government was creating an artificial gas crisis as a pretext to increase prices, demanding uninterrupted gas and electricity supplies and the withdrawal of the recent LPG price hike. He said the Sylhet programme would be held by rail because of poor road conditions.
After the rally at Muktangan, Shafiqur, National Citizen Party Convener Nahid Islam, Liberal Democratic Party President Col (retd) Oli Ahmed and other alliance leaders marched towards the Secretariat, demanding lower LPG prices, uninterrupted pipeline gas supply and electricity for every household.
Police stopped the procession near Gate No. 1. Shafiqur called on the government to send a representative within 10 minutes, but none arrived. The alliance ended the programme around 2:00pm after waiting an additional five minutes.
The alliance's 10-point demands include a public hearing into alleged "ghost" electricity bills, abolition of what it described as unreasonable electricity charges, suspension of gas bill collection where no gas is supplied, and increased domestic gas production.
It also called for an investigation into the Moheshkhali LNG terminal failure, action against gas theft and system losses, uninterrupted energy supplies to industry, adequate LPG and CNG supplies, and exemplary punishment for corruption and mismanagement in the energy sector.
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৬-৮-২০২৬ দুপুর ৪:১৬
The 11-Party Alliance today staged a sit-in in Dhaka, protesting the ongoing gas and electricity crisis and pressing a 10-point charter of demands. They also announced a series of protest programmes from September to November.
The programme began at Zero Point in Paltan before leaders and activists marched towards the Secretariat, where police stopped them near Gate No. 1.
Addressing the gathering, Opposition Leader and Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman announced the alliance's next phase of protests.
The programmes include a long march from Dhaka to Chattogram on September 5, another to Rangpur on September 19, a Dhaka-Khulna-Jashore-Kushtia-Dhaka long march on October 10, a rail journey to Sylhet on October 24, and a grand rally in Dhaka on November 14.
Shafiqur said the alliance would continue its movement until its demands are met and warned that any attempt to obstruct the programmes would only strengthen the protests.
He also alleged that the government was creating an artificial gas crisis as a pretext to increase prices, demanding uninterrupted gas and electricity supplies and the withdrawal of the recent LPG price hike. He said the Sylhet programme would be held by rail because of poor road conditions.
After the rally at Muktangan, Shafiqur, National Citizen Party Convener Nahid Islam, Liberal Democratic Party President Col (retd) Oli Ahmed and other alliance leaders marched towards the Secretariat, demanding lower LPG prices, uninterrupted pipeline gas supply and electricity for every household.
Police stopped the procession near Gate No. 1. Shafiqur called on the government to send a representative within 10 minutes, but none arrived. The alliance ended the programme around 2:00pm after waiting an additional five minutes.
The alliance's 10-point demands include a public hearing into alleged "ghost" electricity bills, abolition of what it described as unreasonable electricity charges, suspension of gas bill collection where no gas is supplied, and increased domestic gas production.
It also called for an investigation into the Moheshkhali LNG terminal failure, action against gas theft and system losses, uninterrupted energy supplies to industry, adequate LPG and CNG supplies, and exemplary punishment for corruption and mismanagement in the energy sector.
