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RANGPUR, May 10, 2025 (BSS) – Hundreds of students and public organized a massive protest march and rally here today under the banner of the National Unity against Fascism demanding three points including the banning of Awami League. 

Leaders of the district and metropolitan units of the anti-discrimination student movement, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), National Citizens Party (NCP) and other organisations coordinated the protest march that started from Lalbagh area at 4 pm. 

Circling around Chartola Mour, Beacon Mour, Shapla Chattar, Jahaz Company Intersection and Paira Chattar, the protest march gathered at the protest rally at the Public Library ground on the Town Hall premises. 

Anti-discrimination student movement Rangpur district convener Imran Ahmed, its Rangpur metropolitan unit convener Imtiaz Ahmed Imty, its chief organiser Ali Hossain Saif, joint member-secretary Muhammad Rajimuzzaman Hridoy, Rangpur metropolitan JCD convener Imran Khan Sujan, anti-discrimination student movement leaders Farhan Fahim, Zubair Himon, Al Maruf and Md. Shafi addressed the rally. 

The speakers demanded banning of Awami League for mass killing in July Revolution, establishing fascism and practicing enforced disappearances during the last 16 years, looting billions of public money and smuggling abroad. 

They said that the terrorists of Awami League and its affiliated bodies have indiscriminately attacked, shot and killed hundreds of revolutionary students and innocent people throughout the country in the July-August Revolution. 

They demanded that the fascist Awami League should not be allowed to do politics in any way, and that the Awami League be banned immediately without any further delay. 

 The Awami League must be banned because the fascist party has not only committed crimes against humanity by killing hundreds of students and innocent people, but has also subjugated the nation and is hatching one conspiracy after another. 

Imran Ahmed demanded immediate implementation of the three-point demand. 

“The demands are to declare the Awami League a terrorist organization and ban it, to include the provision for party-based trial of the Awami League in the International Crimes Tribunal Act, and to issue a July declaration,” he said.