Human chain in Sunamganj demands all-weather paved road from Madhyanagar to Kalmakanda
Residents have formed a human chain demanding construction of a paved road usable all year between Madhyanagar in Sunamganj and Kalmakanda in Netrokona. The programme was held at 11:30am on Friday on the Madhyanagar-Kalmakanda road adjoining Madhyanagar Akhra.
People of different professions from the two upazilas joined the hour-long human chain under the slogan 'We have only one demand, we want a road usable all year round'.
Speakers said the people of Madhyanagar and Kalmakanda have long-standing business, social and family ties. But because of the poor state of road communication, people of the two upazilas suffer severely when travelling.
Speakers said the road becomes unusable in the rainy season. If the necessary bridges and culverts are built on the roughly five-kilometre stretch from Madhyanagar Akhraghat to Galha while keeping the natural flow of water, the road can be made usable throughout the year.
Speakers at the human chain also said that if the road is built, travel between the two upazilas will become easier and new opportunities will open in business, education and health care. They demanded a quick initiative to build the road to ease public suffering.
The demonstrators conveyed their demand to the government through Deputy Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad and Netrokona-1 (Kalmakanda-Durgapur) MP Barrister Kaysar Kamal and Sunamganj-1 MP Kamruzzaman Kamrul.
Those who spoke at the human chain included Madhyanagar upazila BNP joint convener Abul Basar, Jubo Dal joint convener Saidur Rahman Zia, former Sadar union BNP convener Kamal Hossain, local resident Bidhan Talukdar, Dr Muktadhir Hossain Sujan, poet Asim Sarkar, farmer Pranay Sarkar, auto-rickshaw driver Kajol Sarkar, Sharif Ahmed, teacher Subrata Sarkar Nandan, Raisul Islam Tapu and health worker Mehedi Hasan Hridoy, among others.
