Attack on journos in Kushtia protested

Journalists in Dinajpur brought out a procession in the town yesterday protesting the attack on colleagues in Kushtia by activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), youth front of ruling BNP. PHOTO: STAR

Speakers at protest meeting held at Pabna Press Club condemned the barbaric attack by the ruling party cadres led by lawmaker Shahidul resulting in serious injuries to the journalists. They urged the journalists to unite against the ruling party hooligans. They also demanded punishment to the culprits.

Club president Md Mohiuddin presided the meeting.

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Pabna Press Club secretary ABM Fazlur Rahman, elderly journalist and politician Ranesh Moitra, The Daily Ittefaq correspondent Anwarul Haque and Faruk Hossain of The Daily Prothom Alo addressed the meeting.

In Faridpur, The Daily Samakal Editor Abed Khan, at a meeting held at Faridpur Press Club, demanded immediate resignation of Kushtia lawmaker Shahidul. He also demanded immediate arrest of the attackers.

Among others, The Daily Samakal sub-editor Abu Sayed Khan, The Daily Observer correspondent Jagadish Chandra Ghosh The Daily Prothom Alo correspondent Ponna Bala, The Daily Ajker Kagonj correspondent Nirmalendu Chakrobarti Sankar, BTV newsman Resadul Hakim addressed.

They condemned the heinous attack on their colleagues in Kushtia.

A protest meeting at Gaibandha Press Club, presided by Club president Gobinda Lal Das demanded immediate arrest and punishment to the culprits.

KM Rezaul Haque, Abu Zafar Sabu, Syed Nurul Alam, Jahangir, Nuruzzaman Prodhan, Amitav Das Himu and others spoke on the occasion.

In Mymensingh, a protest meeting held at Mymensingh Press Club under the chairmanship of the local unit president of Sangbadik Samity, Kazi Yasin condemned the attack.

Speakers expressed their grave concern over increasing trend of attacks on journalists by police and hooligans in recent days.

In Dinajpur, a protest meeting was held in front of Dinajpur Press Club where local journalists condemned the attack and demanded punishment to the culprits.