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Nirmul body calls dawn-to-dusk hartal today

By Staff Correspondent
A countrywide dawn-to dusk hartal has been called for today (Sunday) in support of .1 live-point demand of the National Coordination Comnil ttec for Realisation of the Spirit of the Liberation War and Resistance to the Killers and Collaborators of 1971.
A half-day hartal on May 18 was observed only In the capital for the same demands. Is was called following the expiry of a one-month deadline for the government to accept the demands.
The demands Include: execution of the death sentence on Golam Azam, ban on politics
by the Jamaate-lslnm! and other anti Liberation political parties and withdrawal of cases against the 24 sponsors of Golam Azam's public trial at a people's court on March 26.
Vehicles belonging to WASA. electricity authority, medicine shops, fire service, hospitals and newspapers will remain out of the purview of today's hartal.
Meanwhile, major political parlies Including the Awamt League, CPB-led Patriotic Qeiqopratlc Front, Five-Party Alliance, student fronts of the above-mentioned parties and alliances, various professional groups, trade union bodies and socio-cultural organisations have extended their allout support to the hartal.
Political parties that have supported the hartal held separate public meetings in the city Friday calling upon the people to observe it peacefully.
Besides, torch processions were brought out yesterday by the Coordination Committee branches across the country In this regard.
Committee units in the capital paraded the city streets carrying torches and shouting slogans in support of the hartal yesterday evening. The processions were followed by brief rallies.
Reports of similar processtons were also received from different parts of the country including Faridpur and Narayanganj.
Our Faridpur Correspondent said last night that the Coordination Committee unit there has shortened the hartal hours in the district from 12 hours to 6 hours as a full-day hartal was observed there after the Eid day protesting the killing of Aztzul Islam Raju, a local leader of the Awamt League.
Our Correspondent from Narayanganj reported that a torch procession followed by a rally at the Diamond Square was held yesterday evening to drum up support for the daylong hartal today.
Meanwhile, statements were Issued, last night by Ganatan-trlk Blplobi Jote, Bangladesh Chhatra Federation, Bangaban-dhu Ainjibi I’arishad, JSD (Rab), Projanma "71, SamaJ-lantrlk Chhatra Front, Patriotic Democratic Front, Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Mukll Andolon and Bangladesh Islaml Blplobi Andolon urging all to make the countrywide hartal a success.