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Day labourers urge BNP chief to give up blockade

Staff Correspondent
With the opposition's ongoing movement hitting hard the lives and livelihoods of the low income people, several hundred day labourers yesterday tried to stage demonstrations in front of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's residence in the capital.
Law enforcers, however, foiled the bid of the protesters who demand that the BNP chief abandon the tactic of blockades and hartals as a form of protest.
A day ago, police foiled a procession of transport workers who tried to stage dem-
onstrations in front of her residence in Gulshan, protesting attacks on drivers and their vehicles during blockades.
Gulshan police said several hundred workers, mainly rickshaw-pullers, autorickshaw drivers and day labourers, under the banner of "Khete Khawa Manush" thronged the Gulshan-2 intersection in the morning but were prevented from heading towards Khaleda's house nearby.
Carrying baskets, axes and other work tools, the protesters chanted slogans against
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Khaleda, saying the weeklong blockade had made their lives miserable by depriving them of works. The workers said their families had no alternative to starving during such programmes.
If political parties carry out other forms of movement excluding blockades and hartals, the poor people would not be affected, they
said.
Though police barred the workers, they allowed a delegation of protesters to visit the opposition leader's house to hand over their memorandum.
The team, however, could not do that as none from Khaleda's residence agreed to receive the memorandum. The protesters left the Gulshan intersection around
1:00pm.
In the memorandum, the workers urged the opposition leader to refrain from enforcing violent programmes like hartals and blockades which wreak havocs on their livelihoods and security. "We request you, please change the nature of action of the ongoing movement," the statement reads.
The BNP-led 18-party alliance enforced a second 72-hour blockade at 6:00am on Saturday demanding cancellation of the schedule for the 10th parliamentary election slated for January 5 and protesting filing of "false cases" against its leaders and activists. Later, the alliance extended the blockade by 59 hours to 5:00pm on Thursday.