Soon after the formation of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, the Jasad-fueled protests were met with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini personnel who were accused of conducting raids in the opposition politicians houses, torture, murders and abductions of the opposition activists.

Due to corruption, misappropriation of relief items, hoarding of essential goods by marketeers, and smuggling of food grain to India, during the initials days of 1974 there was inflation.

The declaration gave Awami League government around one month time to take necessary measures or to face dire consequence on 17 March.

[2] The rally was supposed to end before sunset and then march towards the residence of Home Minister Mansur Ali to submit a Memorandum of Redemption after briefly laying siege around the house.

But once the meeting began, it started getting agitated by the speeches of A. S. M. Abdur Rab, Mohammad Abdul Jalil and other leaders.

After the meeting ended, a large group of people started marching towards Minto Road of Ramna area where the residence of the Home Minister is located.

[3] Once the armed Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini personnel reached the place with trucks, they started firing live bullets on the crowd.

[1] According to A. S. M. Abdur Rab:[1] Suddenly Rakkhi Bahini and police arrived the spot and started firing.

After the massacre that lasted for almost one hour, journalists from Daily Ganakantha prepared a news item on the death of around 50 Jasad supporters and the abduction of their corpses by Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini personnel.

But the news was not published as the police and Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini personnel raided the office of Ganakantha and arrested the editor, Al Mahmud.

[1] In 2016, Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi criticized Hasanul Haq Inu for his role for blockade residence of then Home Minister Mansur Ali.