The government has announced a three-day general holiday
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for ensuring public safety.
"A three-day general holiday on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday has been announced,"
Public administration minister Farhad Hossain told BSS this afternoon.
The organisers of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement today came up with a set of points for people to make the non-cooperation movement successful.
Earlier, they announced a single-point demand -- resignation of the prime minister -- at a mammoth rally at the Central Shaheed Minar.
Asif Mahmud, an organiser of the movement, announced the points:
1. No one should pay any tax.
2. Refrain from paying any kind of utility bills.
3. All government and private institutions, offices, courts and mills and factories will remain closed. Do not go to office but collect your salary at the end of the month.
4. Educational institutions will remain closed.
5. Expatriates will not send any remittance to the country through banking channels.
6. Boycott all government meetings, seminars and events.
7. Port workers will not go to work. Do not unload any kind of goods.
8. No mills and factories will run in the country. RMG workers will not go to work.
9. Public transport will be closed; workers will not go to work.
10. Banks will only remain open on every Sunday for urgent transactions.
11. Police will only perform their routine duties at their stations. They will not perform any protocol, riot or protest duties.
12. Not a single taka should be smuggled out of the country, and no offshore transactions will take place.
13. Except BGB and Navy, other forces will not perform duty outside the cantonment. BGB and Navy will be in their barracks and coastal areas.
14. Bureaucrats will not go to the secretariat; DC or upazila officials will not go to their respective offices.
15. Luxury goods shops, showrooms, shops, hotels, motels and restaurants will be closed.
EXCEPTIONS
1. Hospitals, pharmacies, emergency transport services such as transportation of medicine and medical equipment, ambulance services, fire service, media, transportation of daily necessities, emergency internet service, emergency relief assistance and transport services of officers and employees on duty in this sector will be out of the purview of this directives and remain functional.
2. Shops of essential commodities will be open from 11:00am to 1:00pm.
Some rickshaw pullers gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka and joined the protest movement on this afternnon.
Rickshaw pullers were seen chanting slogans with the protesters.
Montajar Hossain, a rickshaw puller said, "I am from Rangpur. My brother Abu Sayed was killed. There is no place for murderers in Bangladesh soil."
Md Munna, another puller said, "We want justice. They killed students, even rickshaw pullers were killed. We are with the students. "
They chanted slogans such as, "Agun Jalao ekshathe, shoiracharer biruddhe" (Light fire together, against the autocrat), Amar bhai shahid keno, Sheikh Hasina jobab de (Why my brothers were killed, we want answer from Hasina), Chattra-Jonotar action, direct action (Students-peoples action, direct action), Ek dofa, ek dabi, Hasina tui kobe jabi (1 point, 1 demand, when will you leave, Hasina).
Responding to a UNICEF statement about deaths of 32 children during the quota reform demonstrations in July, the government today issued a statement, saying it has on information right now about deaths of 32 children.
Besides, reliable sources, names, identities, profile or list of the dead were not mentioned in the statement of UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia Sanjay Wijesekera, said the statement issued by Information and Broadcasting Ministry on behalf of the government.
It said if UNICEF provides the list of 32 children death mentioning reliable sources, the government will take proper measures to this end.
The government does not expect any single unwanted death of the country people including child by any means, it said, adding the government will ensure justice by investigating every single incident of death during the violence centering the quota reform movement through independent judicial commission.