Rangamati Correspondent

In Rangamati city gymnasium grounds, university admission, jobs, three hill district councils, Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board, in all fields including disparity with hill Bengalis and distribution in proportion to the population, and to form Chittagong Hill Tracts free of terrorism and extortion In protest against domestic and foreign conspiracies against the state At the initiative of the Central Committee of Chittagong Hill Tracts Students’ Parishad PCCP, thousands of students started a protest march from the municipal square on Friday morning (August 9) and went to the gymnasium ground to meet in a mass meeting.

PCNP Central Committee C:Vice President Md Asif Iqbal and General Secretary Md Habib Azam spoke as the chief guest in the grand meeting PCNP Central Committee Chairman Kazi Mujibur Rahman.General Secretary of PCNP Central Committee and former Mayor of Baghaichhari Municipality Alamgir Kabir spoke as the main speaker, PCNP Central Committee Vice President Advocate Parvez Talukdar, PCNP Rangamati District President Shabbir Ahmed, General Secretary Md Solaiman spoke as special guests.

At the beginning of the rally, special prayers and prayers were offered for the forgiveness of all the martyrs who were killed in the anti-discrimination student movement and for the protection of the lives and property of the flood victims.

Kazi Mujibur Rahman said in the speech of the chief guest In all the institutions and organizations of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the highest positions are being appointed from minority groups.All the posts of members of Parliament, Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Ministers of State, including the post of president of national and regional political parties are reserved for minorities only.The post of Chairman of the Development Board is reserved for both Pahari and Bengalis, but this position has always been appointed from the minority ethnic groups.

In the interests of equality and justice, the Bengali people of Chittagong Hill Tracts strongly demand from the to appoint a Bengali as the chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board.

In the case of appointing members to the three hill district councils, members should be elected from all communities in proportion to the population. As 51 percent Bengali population in Chittagong Hill Tracts, at least 50 percent members of Hill District Council should be appointed from Bengali population.

Speakers said that the Chittagong Hill Tracts Land Dispute Settlement Commission Act, which is discriminatory and has special purpose, should be amended and land settlement should be introduced among the helpless and landless. The lengthy process of obtaining a permanent resident certificate should be simplified.