A group of people, including students, is holding a sit-in protest in front of BNP Chairperson’s adviser Fazlur Rahman’s house in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, in protest against his branding of participants of the July uprising as a “dark force.” Law enforcement agencies, including army personnel, have been deployed at the scene to prevent any untoward incidents.

A student protester, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “BNP’s Fazlur Rahman has been calling the revolutionaries ‘children of collaborators’ and labeling us as a dark force. He even said we are just acting in 2024. If this is acting, then today we will act for his arrest. Our demand is his arrest and exemplary punishment. We are demonstrating peacefully and passively, but we feel the interim government has failed to value our movement. From now on, there will be no timid actions. Today we stood face-to-face at his house, and from now on, anyone who belittles the 24 movement will be confronted directly. We, the revolutionary people, will speak eye to eye.”

Meanwhile, an effigy of Fazlur Rahman was burnt in protest at Dhaka University. In his home district of Kishoreganj, he has been declared “persona non grata.” Simultaneously, his party, BNP, has issued him a show-cause notice, giving him 24 hours to respond.