Section 144 In Kalaroa

Jamaat postpones Saydee's meeting

15 March 2009, 18:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Satkhira

The administration here imposed Section 144 banning all gatherings at Kalaroa as the pro-liberation forces including freedom fighters and local Jamaat called meetings yesterday at the same venue. Jamaat-e-Islami called the meeting at Kalaroa high school ground where its leader Delwar Hossain Saydee was scheduled to speak as chief guest. Due to protest by locals including freedom fighters and imposition of Sec 144, Jamaat finally decided to postpone the meeting, sources said. Several hundred people brought out a procession and held a rally Saturday protesting a bid to hold 'political meeting in the name of mahfil' by Saydee at Kalaroa. They vowed to resist the meeting and called a meeting at the same venue on the same day and submitted a memorandum to Kalaroa upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) and officer-in-charge (OC) of local police station urging them to stop the meeting. To avoid untoward incident, the local administration enforced Section 144 at Tala headquarters. Contacted, Kalaroa UNO Khalil Ahmed said as the rival groups called meetings at the same venue we tried to resolve the issue amicably but it failed. “So there was no alternative to enforcing Section 144 to avoid untoward incident,” he added.