Hefajat threatens movement again

Hefajat-e-Islam yesterday afternoon threatened to take to the street if their demand of canceling the move of removing Islam as the state religion from the constitution is not met immediately. 

"Do not play with fire or compel us to take to the street," Hefajat Secretary General Zunaid Babunagari said in a rally after the Juma prayers at Chittagong's Anderkilla Shahi Jame Mosque's north gate.

He said removing the state religion Islam from the constitution is tantamount to declaring war against religious scholars and pious people.

Later hundreds of Hefajat activists brought out a protest procession that broke the police barricade in front of the city corporation building and marched towards the press club in Jamalkhan area.

Hefajat-e-Islam declared a countrywide protest rally and procession on March 21. The hearing of a writ petition in this regard would be held at high court on March 27.