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Independence Day

People of Indian enclaves hoist Bangladesh flag

Our Correspondent, Thakurgaon
People of Indian enclaves inside Bangladesh first ever observed Independence Day in their respective enclaves hoisting Bangladeshi national flag yesterday.
They also brought out processions with Bangladeshi national flags and hoisted it on the rooftop of their houses.
General secretary of India-Bangladesh Enclave Exchange Coordination Committee, Bangladesh Chapter Golam Mostafa told this correspondent that the enclave people observed Independence Day in all 111 enclaves inside Bangladesh with a decision to forsake Indian citizenship. It was a part of their on-going agitation programme, he added.
Golam Mostafa hoisted Bangladesh flag at Garati enclave under Panchagarh Sadar upazila as chief guest while chairman of Garati enclave Mofizer Rahman
was present. The enclave people later brought out a procession and marched different streets of the enclave.
Meanwhile, the indefinite hunger strike by the inhabitants of 111 Indian enclaves in Panchagarh entered its ninth day yesterday.
About a hundred people, including women and children, began the strike along Dhaka-Panchagarh highway adjacent to Puthimari Indian enclave.
TWenty-five people fell sick during the strike that started on March 18. Of them, five were admitted to Panchagarh Sadar Hospital as their condition deteriorated.
However, local administration is yet to offer any positive message to the enclave people who are on hunger strike.
The enclave dwellers went on hunger strike to press home their three-point demand including immediate implementation ofthe 1974 Indo-Bangla land boundary agreement, popu-
larly known as Indira-Mujib Pact.
The two other demands are fundamental rights of the enclave dwellers on both sides of Indo-Bangla border and free movement with passports to perform religiousrituals.
Leaders of different political parties and social organisations expressed solidarity with the agitating enclave people.
The enclave people are living an awful life amid lack of employment opportunity, infrastructure, educational institutions, electricity, medical facilities and security, they said.
Meanwhile, people of 51 Bangladeshi enclaves inside India are also continuing 'hunger strike' at Shanghati Maidan in Dinhata sub-divisional town in Cooch Behar district of Paschimbanga in India from 12 March, said Diptiman Sen Gupta, deputy secretary of India-Bangladesh Enclave Exchange Coordination Committee, Indian Chapter.