Leaders and activists of the Awami League, along with members of affiliated organisations and families of freedom fighters, have held a series of demonstrations at the party’s abandoned district office in Pabna over the past week.
According to eyewitnesses, participants raised the national and party flags, sang the national anthem, and chanted slogans including Joy Bangla at different times.
In the early hours of 16 February, four women and two children, identifying themselves as children of freedom fighters, arrived at the abandoned office, hoisted the national flag, and sang the national anthem.
On the morning of 20 February, supporters of district Chhatra League president Sabuj raised both the national and party flags at the site and shouted party slogans.
Later that afternoon, a group of Awami League leaders and activists led by Advocate Toufiq Habib, who was recently released, also visited the office. They raised the party flag and staged a brief protest, chanting slogans.
On 21 February, the abandoned Awami League office was set on fire by unidentified individuals. Protesting the incident, leaders of the Swechchhasebak League and district Chhatra League placed wreaths at the portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Following the wreath-laying, a protest procession was brought out on Hamid Road in Pabna, with participants chanting Joy Bangla and demanding action against those responsible for the arson.
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