A group of workers of Bangladesh Chhatra League today termed Chittagong City Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury 'a collaborator' and demanded his punishment for holding meeting with BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
About 150 BCL men loyal to Awami League leader AZM Nasir Uddin brought out a procession in the afternoon and burnt effigies of Mohiuddin Chowdhury and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury in front of Chittagong Press Club.
“We demand trial of Mohiuddin Chowdhury for collaborating with an 'identified war criminal' when Awami League was preparing to try and punish the war criminals," said BCL leader Hasan Murad Biplob.
The protest was staged three days after Mohiuddin Chowdhury, also the president of AL Chittagong city unit, held a meeting with the BNP lawmaker at his city residence Tuesday night.
Biplob said Chittagong city unit of AL and BCL would announce further protests from a condolence meeting of late AL adviser and former labour minister MA Mannan scheduled for September 30.
He said they would launch a campaign and collect signatures to press for trial and punishment of the mayor.
The meeting between Mohiuddin and SQ Chowdhury drew protests from a faction of BNP too.
A group of BNP activists reportedly loyal to BNP Joint-Secretary General Abdullah Al Noman from a rally on Thursday also demanded expulsion of SQ Chowdhury from the party.