Grassroots leaders meeting in Kurigram

BKF & BKS jointly organized a grassroots leaders meeting in Ghogadha under the northern district Kurigram at yesterday 22 September 2010. In this meeting they discusses about ongoing land occupation movements, strategy of movements, and their problems. In the meeting Krugram district committee of BKF & BKS decided DC (district commissioner) office encirclement and submit memorandum on their demands in last week of October 2010.

Kurigram is the poorest district of Bangladesh (as a government report also). You know that we have strong base in Kurigram and all sub-district of the district we have strong movements. In the mid-October to mid-December is the Monga (shortage of food of the poor people like primary stage of famine) time in kurigram that every people have to face. BKF and BKS Kurigram district committee want to a big mobilization in this starting time of Monga for their demands to DC. Because DC is the responsible person in the respective district for all the government responsibility even distribute fellow lands among the landless.