BNP wants to hold a 'Shramik-Karmachari Convention' at Dhaka Metropolitan Theater premises on Saturday, September 30. On September 24, Jatiyatavadi Sramik Dal, an affiliate of BNP, wrote a letter to Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner seeking permission to hold a workers-employee conference outside the theater on that day from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. City Corporation has given permission but DMP is yet to issue.
Organizers said, the DMP objected to the conference at Mahanagar Natya Mancha premises on Wednesday morning. Verbally citing security reasons, the conference is advised to be moved elsewhere.
The Nationalist Labor Party is organizing this conference. In the letter given to the City Corporation and DMP, the organization said that they are organizing this labor-employee conference on the labor situation including price hike, wage commission, national pay scale and minimum wage in the country. More than 10,000 representatives of more than 15 right, left and moderate labor organizations will participate in it. Prominent labor leaders will be guests at the conference. The organizers said that the preparations for the conference are almost complete.
The conference will be held under the slogan 'Unite in the fight for suffrage, democracy, living wages, safe working environment, trade union rights and democratic labor laws'. The coordinator of the conference and joint secretary general of Bangladesh Road Transport Federation Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas told Prothom Alo that the organization of this conference is being hindered step by step. For more than 15 days the conference had to suffer from complications regarding the venue. Wherever permission is sought, it is blocked. Finally the South City Corporation allowed the convention outside the Mahanagara Natya Mancha. But now the police administration is shying away from the conference on the pretext of security.
In this regard, DMP Commissioner Khandkar Golam Farooq told Prothom Alo tonight, 'We did not stop them from gathering. However, since there is a program of Awami League in a nearby place at the same time on that day, I have asked to hold the program at a distance.'
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