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23 July 2010 local committee of Rupganj sub-district organized a rally and procession against a developer company named "Dhaka Village". Rupgonj Sub-district is under Narayangonj district and close to Dhaka. The developer company bought some land and trying to fill up sands on the huge land of people by force. They also proposed to People to sale land to them, but people are not agreed at all. Because, land is their life, land is their like child. Local peasants also committed to save their fertile land from the land grabbers like so called Developer Company.

At 18 July 2010 BKF & BKS Bhurungamari Sub-district committee organized the long-march and memorandum submission program. More than one thousand local landless and fisherflock attended in long-march from Boldia to Bhurungamari to submit a memorandum to local government authority in Sub-district level. It's 20 Kilometers long march for demanding to cancellation of lease of "Sonarhater Chora". Sonarhater Chora is a big water bodies in Bhurungamari sub-district under the northern Kurigram District.

On the 25th of January 2010 the BKF & BKS local committee organized a rally in Bhurungamari sub-district of northern Kurigram district. BKF president Badrul Alam was the chief guest of that landless rally. Landless peasants are trying to build up a strong movement to occupy a big water-body in Sonarhat area in that sub-district. In this sub-district BKF and BKS members occupied railway abandoned land at 16th of December 2004 and almost 3000 landless families are living there as a result of that occupation.

On January 20th, 2010 Bangladesh Krishok Federation and Bangladesh Kishani Sabha jointly organized a rally and procession on the issue of Climate Change and Khas Land. The Barisal district committee of BKF and BKS organized the rally in Barisal divisional city and hundreds of landless peasants attended the rally and procession.
There were two slogans in the program: "System Change, not Climate Change" and "Khas Land to the landless". The President of BKF, Badrul Alam, and the President of BKS, Khurshida Akter, were the important speakers at this rally.