Dhaka, May 16 -- National leaders have demanded that the Interim Government raise Bangladesh's water problem at the UN.

They raised the demand at a mass rally organized on Farakka Long March Day at National Shaheed Minar in the city on Friday afternoon.

The mass rally was organized by IFC Bangladesh in collaboration with the New York-based International Farakka Committee (IFC). iFC Bangladesh chapter President journalist Mostafa Kamal Majumdar presided over the rally.

On 16 May 1996, Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, leader of the toiling masses led the long march and raised a strong voice against unilateral diversion of water of the Ganges.

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