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The landless and homeless have held a protest march and sit-in program for 3-point demands including rehabilitation of the landless living in Rangpur City Corporation area.
Landless and homeless organizations took out a protest march with red flags from Shapla Chatwar area of Rangpur city on Sunday (May 13) afternoon. Land and homeless people from different areas of the city took part in it. At the end of the procession, they held a sit-in program in front of the Rangpur District Commissioner's office.
From the program, it was demanded to immediately recover Khas land and rehabilitate the landless, stop the increase in commodity prices and start universal ration.
The organization member Chan Mia Rahman spoke in the chair of the organization – chief organizer Anwar Hossain Bablu, organizer Ahsanul Arefin Titu, landless organizer Anwara Begum, Beauty Sultana, Lovely Begum and others.
The leaders said that the landless and homeless people of the city corporation and neighboring areas have been agitating for a long time for their 3-point demand including their rehabilitation. The landless people here are eagerly waiting for the Prime Minister to fulfill his promise to bring the country to a landless state. These destitute families have informed the District Commissioner about the pitiful condition of their housing at various times through memorandums. A new dimension has been added to that of arbitrary evictions. As a result, landless and homeless families are living in despair on the one hand and fear of eviction on the other.
At this time, the government was called upon to implement the demands of construction of multi-storied buildings in the City Corporation to rehabilitate the landless, prevent the increase in commodity prices and start universal ration.
Advocate Kamrunnahar Khanam Shikha, Central Member of Bangladesh Women's Mukti Center, Hizbullahil Kafi, President of Rangpur Metropolitan Committee of Bangladesh Youth Alliance, Salman Siddiqui, Central President of Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, Member Saju Basfor etc. spoke in solidarity in the program.
