Defying arrests, repression, and fear of mob attacks, the procession lines of the Awami League and its affiliated organizations are gradually growing. On Saturday noon, Awami League leaders and activists marched at the TSC area of Dhaka University demanding the resignation of Yunus—for the first time since 5 August last year. The news of such a rally was confirmed today.
Today, Saturday, 1 November, the party organized a protest march of more than a thousand leaders and workers from the Agargaon Metro Rail Station toward Farmgate in the capital. A day after Friday’s 40 protest marches across Dhaka, the city streets once again echoed with the slogans “Joy Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu” and “Remove Yunus, Save the Nation.”
From around 1 PM, Awami League, Chhatra League, and Jubo League leaders and activists joined the rally with banners, festoons, and red–green national flags near the Agargaon Metro Rail Station.
The march proceeded through Bijoy Sarani toward Farmgate. Along the way, the youth, business owners, and common citizens greeted the rally with applause. Many also chanted “Joy Bangla.”
One Awami League activist participating in the rally said, “Even though we are being arrested and beaten, we are not afraid. We believe in Bangabandhu’s ideology—so fear does not move us; embracing jail with a smile is our pride.”
Tahsaan Ahmed Russell, Central Vice-President of Chhatra League, said, “The planned mobs of BNP–Jamaat and police repression—none of it can stop us. The rallies are growing every day, people are coming out to raise their voices.”
From Agargaon to Farmgate, slogans were chanted demanding the resignation of the “illegal Yunus government” and an end to the torture of party activists. According to Awami League leaders, the spontaneous support of ordinary people along the route is giving them renewed courage.
A worker from Bhola District Awami League described this public support, saying:
“After the rally, when we boarded a bus, the police suddenly started checking. There were eight of us rally participants on that bus. Seeing the police, we got worried. Immediately, a private-sector employee on the bus said, ‘Don’t panic, I’m here. You all sit quietly.’”
He continued: “That employee, holding his young child, stood before the police and asked why they had stopped the bus. The police replied that rally participants were inside. The man told them, ‘There are no rally people here. Let the bus go; I need to take my child to the doctor.’ After a long argument between the police and the man, the bus was finally allowed to leave.”
The Awami League worker added that even the bus conductor did not take fare from them. He expressed gratitude to the transport workers and general passengers for helping them escape police harassment.
