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Article: Bikalpa Dhara-Hunger Strike.
- Article from:
- UNB - United News of Bangladesh
- Article date:
- March 20, 2004
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Dhaka, Mar 20 (UNB) - Former President Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury this (Saturday) morning began a daylong token hunger strike along with his supporters in 'Biklpa Dhara' (alternate stream of politics) in front of the main gate of the Supreme Court.
Prof B Chowdhury, convenor of the newly floated Bikalpa Dhara, shifted the venue of hunger strike on the footpath in front of the Jatiya Press Club, as police put embargo on any sort of assembly there.
As B Chowdhury and his supporters were proceeding towards the press club to join the hunger strike announced earlier, police halted them at the High Court crossing around 8:30 am. They then went to the ...