Bangabir Abdul Kader Siddiki MP, chief of Krishak Sramik janata Paty, was the chief guest at the meeting.

Police had opened fire on indigenous people when they were protesting raising of a boundary wall in the forest by the authorities for creation of a planned Eco Park, which they say would displace them from their ancestral homes.

The authorities had postponed construction of the wall last year following protest by the Garo people, but resumed the work this year.

Speakers at the rally said the Garo people will not back out from agitation till their five-point demand is met. The demands include scrapping of the Eco Park, punishment to Peren's killers, compensation for the victim's family and long-term lease of forestlands to indigenous people.

They claimed that ruling party activists threatened Garo people to stop the movement against the proposed Eco Park.

Ruling party activists are attacking Garo people in Modhupur and threatening the villagers not to take part in agitations, they claimed. Such "terrorist activities" must stop, they said.

Presided over Ajoy Mree, it was addressed by, among others, Albart Mankin, Rakhi Mrong and others Garo leaders.

Kader Siddiki said, "I am a men of the Garo area. I think I am an indigenous Garo. I declared that I am with the Garo movement."

Earlier in a meeting, the Garo people formed a 15- members coordination committee headed by Ajoy Mree as its convenor to continue the agitation.

The meeting decided that meetings and processions in the area will continue till January 30 and a human chain will be formed in the last week of the month.