Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal or BaSaD leader Bazlur Rashid Feroz, coordinator of the LDA, made the announcement during a protest programme outside the Secretariat on Sunday. Leaders of the alliance called on the government to reopen the state-owned jute mills after modernising the factories instead of operating them under a public-private partnership model. The LDA will stage a blockade outside the PMO unless the demands are met, warned Bazlur. The alliance has already staged protests outside the deputy commissioners’ offices in different districts, he said. The government announced plans to shut down production at all 26 state-owned jute mills in July and switch to a public-private partnership model in a bid to modernise the flagging sector.

Source: bd News24 September 27, 2020 09:00 UTC