Punishment to attackers of bauls demanded

Lalon Research Institute (LRI) yesterday expressed concern over the assault on baul (mystic singers) in Rajbari on April 6 and demanded exemplary punishment to the perpetrators.

In a press release, LRI General Secretary Shahed Mantaj said bauls spread secular ideologies, the idea of equality of all human being and the message of humanity. An assault on them is totally against the spirit of War of Liberation, he said.

Meanwhile, Bangladesher Kabi, Lekhok, Shilpi Goshty, a platform of poets, writers and artists, formed a human chain and burnt effigies of the perpetrators in front of National Museum yesterday.