Dhaka, June 21 -- The NBR Reform Unity Council has announced a three-hour pen-down protest for Monday, demanding representation in the newly formed body overseeing the bifurcation of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), and calling for the removal of its chairman.

The council's President Hasan Mohammad Tarek Rikabder and Secretary General Sehela Siddiqua declared the programme at a press conference at the Revenue Building in Dhaka's Agargaon on Saturday.

They said, considering the importance of year-end revenue collection and Sunday's scheduled budget passage, they would avoid tougher action for now.

The protest will run from 9am to 12pm. Officials and staff in Dhaka will stage a sit-in at the NBR headquarters, while officials elsewher...