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Awami Jubo League (AJL), the youth front of the main opposition Awami League (AL), called an 8-hour (6.00am-2.00pm) countrywide hartal for March 13 (Monday) to protest the killing of its leader Iman, report agencies.
Jubo League Chairman Jahangir Kabir Nanak announced the hartal programme from a press conference also to protest the crises of fertiliser, fuel and electricity and to demand the "arrest of those ministers and MPs who patronised and harboured the militants in the country".
Nanak demanded immediate arrest of Industries minister Matiur Rahman Nizami, Rajshahi city Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu, state minister Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu, Barrister Aminul Haque, Alamgir Kabir, and advocate Nadim Mostafa for what he said, patronising the Islamic militants, blamed for the recent vigilante action and serial bombings.
"The ministers and MPs patronised and harboured the militants as well as extended financial support to them for carrying out militancy," the AL youth-front leader alleged.
He alleged that the killing took place in the name of crossfire following state Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar's directive over the land dispute in village Miton in Savar.
He also said the coalition government itself is responsible for rising of militant outfits by harboring them.
He was reportedly killed in a shootout between his cohorts and the RAB members at Khagan village of Birulia union early Thursday.
The Jubo League strongly protested the 'killing' of Iman and termed it an extra-judicial act.
Rabeya Khatun, widow of the slain Jubo League leader Hazi Masudur Rahman Iman, organised the press conference in the city in protest against the killing of her husband after his arrest by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) men.
She read out a written statement at the press conference. She said in the statement that RAB took Imam away from the court on March 8 where he went to appear before the court in a false case. He was killed that night in front of his home, she added.
Rabeya demanded fair trial of the killing of her husband.
She also demanded judicial inquiry into the death of her husband and said, "My husband spoke for the common people and helped them and this was the main offence of my husband."
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