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229 BGB platoons deployed across Bangladesh

Published: 13:31, 18 July 2024

229 BGB platoons deployed across Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent
Two hundred twenty-nine Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) platoons have been deployed across the country, including Dhaka. 

Md Shariful Islam, public relations officer of the BGB, confirmed the matter on Thursday morning. 

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He said in a press release that the deployment aimed to maintain law and order in light of a complete shutdown announced by quota reform protesters.

The Students Against Discrimination movement called for a peaceful "complete shutdown" across the country to push home its demand to reform the quota system in public service and protest attacks on student demonstrators.
 

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