Satkhira district unit of Hindu Bouddha Khristian Oikkya Parishad, the local Mandir Samittee, Puja Udjapan Parishad and Hindu Bouddhya Kalyan Front jointly held a rally and brought out a procession in Satkhira town yesterday protesting occupied of a century old crematorium and Hindu temple at Jhowdanga in the Sadar upazila.

The rally was held at Satkhira Shahid Abdur Razzak Park with Monoranjan Mukherjee in the chair. It was addressed by, among others, Biswajit Sadhu, Swapan Shil, Subhas Chandra Ghosh, Biswa Nath Ghosh, Dhiru Bannerjee, Madhab Dutta, Gosto Bihari Mondal, Nirmal Kumar Das, Mongal Kumar Pal, advocate Somnath Chatterjee, Pranab Ghosh and Abu Ahmed.

They said a gang of land grabbers led by local political leaderoccupied the crematorium and a Hindu temple a month back.

Later a procession was brought out from the park, which terminated on the collectorate premises and memoranda handed over DC and SP.