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Protesters roll out 15 points for noncooperation

The organisers of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement yesterday came up with a set of 15 instructions and called upon Bangladeshis to make the non-cooperation movement successful.
Earlier in the day, they announced a single-point demand — the resignation of the prime minister — at a mammoth rally at the Central Shaheed Minar.
Asif Mahmud, an organiser of the movement, later announced the set of instructions. They are as follows:
1. Don’t pay taxes.
2. Don’t pay utility bills.
3. All government and private institutions, offices, courts, mills, and factories will remain closed. Don’t go to work, but collect your salary at the end of the month.
4. All educational institutions will remain closed indefinitely.
5. Don’t send remittances through banking channels (addressed to expatriates).
6. Boycott all government meetings, seminars, and events.
7. Don’t go to work; don’t unload any kind of goods (addressed to port workers).
8. Don’t go to work (addressed to RMG workers).
9. Public transport services will remain suspended; workers won’t go to work.
10. Banks will only remain open on Sundays only for urgent transactions.
11. Offshore transactions will remain suspended so that not a single taka is smuggled out of the country.
12. The police will only perform their routine duties at their respective stations. They won’t perform any protocol, riot, or protest duties.
13. Except for the BGB and Navy, other forces won’t perform duties outside their respective cantonments. The BGB and Navy will be in their respective barracks and coastal areas.
14. Bureaucrats won’t go to the secretariat; DC or upazila officials won’t go to their respective offices.
15. Luxury goods shops, showrooms, shops, hotels, motels, and restaurants will remain closed.
EXCEPTIONS
1. Hospitals, pharmacies, emergency transport services such as transportation of medicine and medical equipment, ambulance services, fire service, media, transportation of daily necessities, emergency internet service, emergency relief assistance, and transport services of officers and employees on duty in this sector will be out of the purview of these directives and remain functional.
2. Shops for essential commodities will remain open from 11:00am to 1:00pm.

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