Boishommo Birodhi Chaatra Andolon, the platform of the quota reform movement, organised a nationwide protest rally on Saturday. Besides, they have called for an all-out non-cooperation movement from Sunday.
In this regard, the protesters issued urgent instructions to students and citizens to make the movement a success. These instructions came on Saturday in a statement sent reportedly by one of the key coordinators of Boishommo Birodhi Chhatra Andolon Nahid Islam.
These instructions are –
- No one shall pay any tax or duties.
- Don’t pay any kind of bills, including electricity, gas, and water bills.
- All types of public and private institutions, offices, courts and factories will remain closed. Don’t go to the office, collect the salary at the end of the month.
- Activities of educational institutions will be closed.
- Expatriates shall not send any kind of remittance to the country through banking channels.
- All kinds of government meetings, seminars, events will be boycotted.
- Port workers will not join the work. Don’t load/unload any goods.
- No factory in the country will run, garment worker brothers and sisters will not go to work.
- Public transports will be suspended, and workers will not go to work.
- Banks will be open every Sunday for urgent personal transactions.
- Policemen will not go on any kind of protocol duty, riot duty and protest duty other than routine duty. Only police stations will do regular police routine work.
- All offshore transactions will be closed so that not a single Taka is smuggled out of the country.
- Other forces except BGB and Navy will not perform duty outside the cantonment. BGB and Navy will be in barracks and coastal areas.
- Bureaucrats shall not go to the secretariat, DC or upazila officials will not go to their respective offices.
- Luxury goods shops, showrooms, trade fairs, hotels, motels, restaurants will remain closed.
In addition, hospitals, pharmacies, emergency transport services, such as medicine and medical equipment transport, ambulance services, fire service, mass media, transportation of daily necessities, emergency internet services, emergency relief assistance and transport services for officials and employees working in this sector will continue.
The instructions mentioned that shops of daily necessities will be open from 11am to 1pm.
