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AL, allies to form human wall tomorrow

Staff Correspondent
The main opposition Awami League (AL) and its left allies will form no-confidence human walls across the country tomorrow as part of the combined opposition's simultaneous movement to overthrow the ruling alliance.
The hour-long demonstration from 4:00pm to 5:00pm will be observed simultaneously in six divisional headquarters—Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Barisal, and all the 64 district towns. Different social and cultural organisations and professional bodies will also join the demonstration expressing solidarity with’ the opposition's demands.
A huge contingent of the police •and'paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) will be deployed at different points of the human wall route in
the capital and other district towns to avoid any untoward incident.
In Dhaka, opposition demonstrators will form a circular human wall touching the Jatrabari roundabout in the east, theTongi Bridge in the north and Gabtoli in the west. Beginning from Jatrabari, the human wall will touch Sayedabad, Tikatuli, Ittefaq crossing, Shapla Chattar, Gulistan, Noor Hossain Square, Paltan crossing, Bijoynagar, Kakrail, Malibagh crossing, Mouchak, Rampura Bridge, Kuril, Airport Road, Uttara and Tongi Bridge.
Another part of the human wall will start from the Noor Hossain Square and end at Gabtoli via the Golap Shalt Shrine, Nagar Bhaban, Curzon Hall, High Court crossing, Matshya Bhaban, Shahbagh, Elephant Road, Science Laboratory intersection, Kalabagan, Russell Square, Asad Gate and Kalyanpur.
Like the previous two human chains, this will also not disturb traffic movement as the participants will not occupy the roads and highways, opposition leaders said.
The programme was announced on March 2, as part of a series of similar agitation programmes of the opposition camp, including a dawn-to-dusk hartal on March 27, "hunger processions" across the country on March 23 protesting price hike of essentials, and countrywide demonstration on March 20 against rise of extremist groups.
Urging people from all walks of life to join the programme, AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil yesterday said people will show noconfidence in the BNP-Jamaat-led coalition for another time tomorrow.
In December last year, the opposition parties formed two crosscountry human walls--one from Teknaf to Tentulia and another from the Sundarbans to Sunamganj.
Business community, development partners as well as common people have appreciated the opposition's human wall programmes to raise their concerns as an alterna-
tive to hartal.
A study report of the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) released last Thursday also recommended all parties to avoid hartal and use programmes like human chain to protest.
The AL and its allies--Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, National Awami Party and the left-leaning 11-party alliance that includes Communist Party of Bangladesh, Workers Party and Gono Forum--had announced the simultaneous agitation against the ruling alliance on November 18 last year with a common nine-point charter of demands.
The key demand of the opposition is an end to the coalition government and holding free and fair elections under a non-party, neutral caretaker government after reforming the existing electoral system. Another major demand is ousting the war criminals from the cabinet to free the country from religious militant groups. The demands also include inquiry into all grenade and bomb blasts, and arrest and punishment of those involved in the Chittagong and Bogra arms hauls.