Farmers form human chain
Over two hundreds farmers of two unions under Sadar upazila formed a human chain and brought out a procession on Saturday demanding flood control dam. Moshiur Rahman Reza, chairman of Lohalia Union Parishad (UP) and Monir Rahman Mridha, chairman for Kamlapur UP led the programmes. The human chain was formed on the bank of the Showla canal in the morning followed by a procession demanding construction of a dam on the canal. Locals claimed that several hundreds hectares of agri land remain idle for lack of dam. 'We cannot cultivate our land as saline water from the canal enters our land”, said a farmer.
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