Jubo Dal enforces half-day hartal in Rangpur city

The Grand Hotel intersection of Rangpur city during the half-day hartal called by local Jubo Dal yesterday to protest the recent killing of party leader Rezaul Karim Milon.Photo: STAR

A half-day hartal called by local Jubo Dal was observed peacefully barring some stray incidents, in the city yesterday.
Jubo Dal enforced the shutdown protesting the killing of one of their leaders, Rezaul Karim Milon.
Information and research secretary of the district unit of Jubo Dal, Rezaul was hacked to death by a gang on November 12 evening.
Police charged baton on the activists of BNP and its associate bodies to disperse them when they tried to set a motorbike on fire at Grand Hotel intersection in the city at noon.
However, the protesters vandalised a battery run auto rickshaw at the same place.
Earlier the Jubo Dal activists brought out a procession from its district office at Grand Hotel intersection around 7:30am but they were resisted by the law enforcers.
All kinds of vehicles went off the roads and all shops and malls remained closed during the shutdown.
Government and non-government offices, banks, commercial establishments and educational institutions were open. But the attendance was very thin.
At about 12:30pm, a BNP procession paraded the main streets of the city.
The processionists arranged a meeting at Parya Chattar, where the speakers demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the culprits who murdered Rezaul at his office.