'Build up resistance against stalkers'
Speakers at a human chain programme yesterday called for framing a strict law to stop stalking and building up a united resistance against the stalkers.
They also urged the people to be respectful to mothers and sisters in and outside the houses.
Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote formed the human chain in front of the National Press Club in the morning.
The speakers said the incidents of stalking have increased to a great extent in the last few years. As a result, they said, a number of female students were compelled to commit suicide in different parts of the country.
Even fathers, mothers and relatives of girl students are assaulted by stalkers and law enforcers cannot stop the stalking alone, they said, adding every person of the society will have to come forward to fight the social menace.
The speakers said mainly derailed boys disturbs the school, college and university girls. So, they opined, a social movement will have to be built up from the family first.
Abdul Haque Sabuj, Sadia Sharmin Tuku, Nasima Aktar Labu, Shahjalal Mukul and Anwar Hossain Majnu and President of Awami Olama League Maulana Md Iliyas Hossain Bin Helali spoke at the programme with acting General Secretary of Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote Arun Sarkar Rana in the chair.
The leaders and activists of the organisation also recited poems on the occasion.
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