A volunteer wing affiliated with the National Citizen Party (NCP) staged a protest procession and rally in Chattogram on Saturday, denouncing what it called a severe deterioration in law and order, uncontrolled rises in the prices of essentials, and anarchy and violence by the Awami League across the country.

The programme was organised by the Chattogram metropolitan unit of the Jatiya Swechchhasebak Shakti (National Volunteer Force) and held in front of Chattogram Press Club at Jamal Khan at 5pm.

The rally was presided over by Zainal Abedin CIP, joint convener of the NCP’s Chattogram metropolitan committee, and addressed by the party’s joint organising secretary, Sadmanur Rahman Chowdhury. Other speakers included the force’s metropolitan organisers Hasan Mahmud Gaddafi, Zakaria Bin Saeed and Hasina Begum, and Ratul Khan, joint member secretary of the Chattogram metropolitan unit of Jatiya Chhatra Shakti (National Student Force), among other leaders.

The speakers highlighted the country’s unstable law-and-order situation and the hardship caused to ordinary people by rising prices of daily necessities. They also strongly condemned what they described as ongoing anarchy and violence nationwide, and called for a robust mass movement against them. A protest procession was held after the rally.