2,000 lay siege to Satkhira WDB office

They laid the siege condemning an incident of cutting down a portion of a newly built embankment at Dherekhali in Sadar upazila by BNP leader Abdul Alim and Labsa Union Parishad (UP) chairman Rezaul Islam. They cut the dam to ensure flow of saline water needed for shrimp culture. This has resulted in damage to 1,500 bighas of croplands at 35 villages in Sadar, Kalaroa and Tala upazilas where cultivation of crops won't be possible.

This has infuriated the farmers and villagers who brought out a big procession led by Balli Union Parishad (UP) chairman Abdur Rahman. Afterwards they laid siege to the BWDB executive engineer's office.

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Maulana Golam Rasul, Prof Mamunur Rahman, M Farooq and Dr Mizanur Rahman addressed the gathering before handing over a memorandum containing their six-point demands to the state minister for water resources through the executive engineer.