DHAKA, Aug 19: Dhaka turned into a city of processions on Friday, with the country’s different political camps staging protests over a series of explosions earlier in the week.

Speaking at one of the demonstrations, an Awami League leader ‘vowed to oust the government through a united movement’.

“If the BNP-Jamaat alliance remains in power, such kind of blasts would not stop. There is no alternative but to oust the coalition government to free the people from such suffocating situation,” League’s general secretary Abdul Jalil said.

The League’s political partners in the alliance made similar statements.

While most of the Islamist parties blamed anti-Islamic forces and ‘foreign agents’ for the blasts, the amir of the Islamic Constitution Movement, Fazlul Karim, said the government should step down.

“The government, which could not even sense that there would be a massive bomb attack, has no right to cling to power,” Fazlul Karim said at a demonstration in front of the Baitul Mokarram mosque.

He also accused the government of harassing teachers and students of madressahs and warned the government of ‘dire consequences’.

Terming it ‘total failure of the the intelligence agencies’, he said the government should withhold payment of this month’s salaries to law enforcement and distribute the money among people affected by the blasts.

At another rally, the chairman of the Islami Ain Bastobaion Committee, Fazlul Haq Amini MP, urged law enforcement agencies not to arrest anyone from madressahs without evidence of their involvement in the explosions.