The Communist Party of Bangladesh general secretary, Mujahidul Islam Selim, on Sunday said the interim government had breached food security at the prescriptions of the World Trade Organisation and the World Bank. This has increased rice prices although there is no supply shortage of rice, he said as he addressed a daylong hunger strike programme of the party in its central office. The Dhaka committee of the party observed the programme in protest at police attacks on its human chain programme at Muktangan on Thursday. They also demanded introduction of food rationing across the country. The party's acting president Shahidullah Chowdhury ended the hunger strike by offering water to the activists. The party placed 15-point demands for the government. The demands included arrest of unusual price increase of essential commodities, opening centres to buy paddy from farmers, reactivating the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh and introducing fair-price shops. The programme was chaired by the Dhaka committee president, Abdul Kader. Workers Party of Bangladesh politburo member Haider Akbar Khan Rano, journalist Syed Abul Moksud, Samyabadi Dal general secretary Dilip Barua, Gana Azadi League president Abdus Samad, Ganatantri Party president Mohammad Nurl Islam, and Trade Union Kendra leader Wajedul Islam Khan also spoke.