Jamaat holds nationwide rallies today

Staff Correspondent
Jamaat-e-Islami will hold rallies across the country today in protest of police action on its leaders and workers in the capital on Thursday. ATM Azharul Islam, acting secretary general of the party, announced the programmes at a press conference at its central office in Moghbazar in the city yesterday. "The protest rallies will be organised in every districts in the country tomorrow [today]," Prof Mohammad Tasneem Alam, secretary of Jamaat's publicity department, told The Daily Star. Azharul claimed police, without any instigation, beat up Jamaat activists as they formed a human chain in front of Jatiya Press Club protesting price hike of fuels and CNG.