DHAKA: Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) was Sunday hailed as ‘land-grabber’ by the landowners who lost their lands in the Uttara 3rd-phase project.

The trouble now occurred close to home as the protestors staged a human chain in front of the RAJUK building in the city to press their demand for handing over their right-share plots.

They alleged that RAJUK deprived them of their inherited property and now took recourse to dillydallying in giving them compensatory plots.

They also fulminated that the “state-owned organization is doing business worth hundreds of crores of taka by allocating plots to others on our property."   

Such action of RAJUK is “a kind of grabbing”, alleged the sufferers.

The sufferers from the human chain demanded individual rehabilitation plots for the owners of land who had land measuring more than five kathas or equal.

RAJUK has already given a notice that land-losers in the project area, even those who lost less than five kathas, could apply for plot.

They demanded allotment of plot for those who failed to submit application even after the notice.

The speakers at the human-chain demo also demanded legal aid for the sufferers regarding the case filed by RAJUK under the land acquisition act.

Vice-President of Uttara 3rd-phase Project sufferers’ kalyan samity Lutfur Rahman told banglanews24.com.bd, "We the sufferers today are taking part in the human chain as the RAJUK chairman denied the decision of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC)."  

He added: "We won’t allow doing any work without allocating us plots.”

The organization also declared a demonstration at Uttara’s Janapad Circle for Friday afternoon.

More than 50 sufferers took part in the human chain.

After the human chain the sufferers submitted a memorandum to the RAJUK chairman through police as police barred them from getting in the office.

BDST: 1658 HRS, AUGUST 8, 2010