Moloy Saha
The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports will begin its three-day Dhaka–Chittagong road march today to push for its seven-point demands, including the scrapping of the deal with ConocoPhillips for hydrocarbon exploration in two offshore gas fields in the Bay of Bengal.
The marchers, in three buses, will start for Chittagong this morning after holding a rally in front of the National Press Club at 10:00am.
The organisation’s convener, Sheikh Muhammad Shaheedullah will preside over the rally. Academics Serajul Islam Choudhury and Akmal Hossain, columnist Syed Abul Moksud, the organisation’s member secretary Anu Muhammad and leaders of left-leaning political parties will also speak. The march will reach Comilla today after holding rallies on its way at Sonargaon, Daudkandi and Chandina. The marchers will leave Comilla Tuesday morning and will hold rallies at Chauddagam, Feni and Mirsarai.
On the third day on Wednesday, the marchers will leave Mirsarai in the morning and hold a rally at Sitakundu before holding the final rally in Laldighi Maidan in Chittagong.
Shadeedullah and Anu in a press statement issued on Sunday called on the people to make the programmes successful.
They demanded the scrapping of the model production and sharing contract 2008 and called on the government not to work out the production and sharing contract 2011 for hydrocarbon exploration in onshore gas fields. They alleged that the energy ministry was controlled by multinational companies and some ministry officials were serving the purposes of the foreign companies.
The organisation will hold ‘a grand rally’ in Dhaka on November 30 after holding a march to the Sunetra gas field in October and a national convention in November.
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