The parliamentary standing committee on home ministry yesterday asked members of law enforcers to exercise restraint during tomorrow's hartal and simultaneously protect the people's lives and properties.
“We do not want police to be atrocious during hartal so that opposition parties get another issue,” Mujib-ul-Haque, a member of the committee told The Daily Star.
Talking with journalists at his office in the secretariat, State Minister for home Shamsul Haque Tuku said law enforcers will not take any actions if opposition parties pledged that they will not destroy people's property during the hartal.
“But police members will resist any attempt of destroying public assets and setting on fire,” Tuku added.
Taking part in a discussion meeting, State Minister for law Kamrul Islam said government and law enforcers will not stay silent if opposition leaders and activists destroy public property during hartal.
Bangabandhu Education and Research Council organised the discussion at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city to wage anti-hartal campaign.
The meeting was addressed among others by AL Joint Secretary General Mahbub ul Alam Hanif, Abdus Sobhan Golap, special assistant to the prime minister.
An online-based newspaper theeditor.net yesterday in an exceptional anti-hartal campaign collected signatures against hartal from people of all sections through setting up three booths at three points in the capital.
Around 2,000 people put signature against hartal and provided their anti-hartal opinions at the Press Club booth till 4:00pm, officials of the newspaper said.
Meanwhile, cross sections of people of different districts including Thakurgaon, Panchagarh and Khulna have opposed hartal and urged opposition to refrain from such programmes that bring destruction for country's economy, our correspondents said.
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