The Jamaat-e-Islami has called a daylong hartal (shutdown) in Chittagong district for tomorrow protesting killing of a union-level leader in Sitakunda on Wednesday and a worker in Mirsarai early today.
The ongoing primary terminal examinations however will remain out of the purview of the shutdown, reports out Chittagong correspondent quoting Mohammad Ullah, publicity secretary of the Jamaat’s port city unit.
The dawn-to-dusk hartal will begin at 6:00am Sunday, the Jamaat leader said adding that the decision was taken at a meeting in the party city office chaired by ANM Shamsul Islam, lawmaker of Chittagong-14 (Satkania-Lohagara) constituency.
On Wednesday, body of Aminul Islam, general secretary of the Jamaat’s Barabkunda union unit, was found after he went missing three days ago.
His body was found lying beside a roadside in Ponthichila area of the upazila. His head bore marks of bullet injuries.
Meanwhile, Jashim Uddin, 27, a Jamaat activist of Shayerkhali union in Mirsarai upazila, died early today, five hours after unknown miscreants attacked him.
The activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of ruling Awami League, are responsible for the attack, alleged Nurul Kabir, Jamaat secretary of Mirsarai upazila unit.
Nurul Mostafa, chairman of Shayerkhali union and also the AL president of the union unit, however denied the allegation.
Three days ago, activists of Jamaat and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, went on a rampage on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sitakunda upazila after the body of Aminul was found.
They torched three vehicles and vandalised around five vehicles on the highway.
