<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Mobile internet services have been shut and broadband internet services have become slow in Barishal city since Saturday morning amid the ongoing divisional rally of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Both subscribers of different telecom operators in the city and BNP activists present at Bangabandhu Park have complained about the disruption in internet services, speculating this to be a strategy of the government to control the flow of information about BNP’s political programme.</div><div><br></div><div>“I couldn’t send photos of BNP’s rally to my office due to an absence of mobile internet since the morning. Finally, I had to go to a shop and use broadband internet to do my work, which was also slow,” said Nurul Amin, a local journalist.</div><div><br></div><div>Broadband connection providers didn’t respond to the allegation.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Md Adnan, a resident of Kashipur union of Barishal sadar Upazila, said that he too couldn’t use mobile internet from the morning.</div><div><br></div><div>“However, broadband internet connection in my house was working,” said Adnan.</div><div><br></div><div>Sadia Akter, a resident of the city’s Sagardi area, echoed Adnan. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>