BNP’s rally today to announce one-point demand

Staff Reporter  :
The BNP is set to organise its biggest yet rally in the capital’s Nayapaltan on Wednesday for announcing the party’s next course of the ongoing agitation.
The BNP leaders said that they are to going to announce one point demand from the rally-the resignation of the current government to pave the way for forming a caretaker government to hold inclusive national polls.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has given permission to the BNP to hold rallies in the capital on Wednesday on certain conditions.
BNP sources said that its event is scheduled to start in Nayapaltan at 3:00pm. The party is supposed to formally announce its one-point movement demanding resignation of the government and holding the national election under a caretaker government.
DMP has issued letters, signed by Syed Mamun Mostafa, Special Assistant to the DMP Commissioner, specifying 23 specific conditions for the rally.
The conditions include: confining the rallies to the designated spaces, not gathering people on the streets or sidewalks outside of the approved places, only allowing people to assemble two hours before the start of the rallies, concluding the rallies within the allotted time, not giving provocative speeches or distributing leaflets, and not using sticks or rods in the name of carrying banners or festoons.
Meanwhile, the AL on Monday decided to hold a ‘peace rally’ at the same time in front of the south gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque.
The DMP has allowed the AL for holding the rally on the same conditions.

On the other hand, BNP alleged that the government is out to unleash violence for blaming the opposition party on the eve of its rally in the capital.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday voiced deep concerns over the crude bomb explosions in the capital ahead of their Wednesday’s rally.
BNP Secretary General alleged that the government is trying to unleash violence in the country to blame the opposition party.
“The government are trying again to push the entire country and the nation towards violence deliberately through provocations,” Fakhrul said.
Mirza Fakhrul at a programme said some media outlets reported about the crude bomb explosions in the city’s Moghbazar area on Monday night.
“It is a very conspiratorial move by those who want to destroy democracy in Bangladesh and malign and blame the BNP.”

He alleged that the government carried out the incident through its various agencies to give the impression that BNP was behind it.
The BNP leader said their party has announced to hold a peaceful public rally in the capital on Wednesday as they did in the past. “But they (AL) have announced a so-called counter programme, ‘peace rally’ and ‘peace march’, pushing the country towards conflict.”

He warned that the government will have to shoulder all the responsibilities for taking the country towards violence with its provocative acts and programmes.
The BNP leader called upon the government to refrain from these terrible efforts undermining the country and work for establishing a true democratic state system by accepting the opposition’s demand for holding an acceptable national election under a neutral administration.