Chhatra League Holds Protest March in Kuril, Streets Echo With ‘Joy Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu’ Slogans

❐ Staff Reporter

Leaders and activists of Dhaka Metropolitan North Chhatra League held a protest march in Kuril in the capital. The streets were filled with slogans.

On Sunday morning, November 1, slogans of ‘Joy Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu’ and ‘Sheikh Hasina is coming, the highway is shaking’ were raised from the procession on the opposite side of Jamuna Future Park at Pragati Sarani. Two cocktail explosions also occurred during this time.

This protest march was held in the Kuril Barabari area in the morning.

In various videos circulating on social media, more than a hundred activists are seen marching along the road. They are chanting various slogans. At one stage of the march, the activists left the scene after seeing the presence of the police.

Police said that two cocktail explosions occurred in quick succession while the vehicle was heading towards Kuril from Badda. Two shells of the exploded cocktail, a motorcycle and a festoon have been seized from the scene. The motorcycle’s registration number is Dhaka Metro-L 52-0579.

Bhatara Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mazharul Islam confirmed the incident on Sunday morning. He said that legal action is being taken in the matter.