It’s not a mere rally, but victory march: BNP

Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday termed his party’s pre-scheduled road march a victory rally.
“It’s not just a march as it’s a march of victory. It’s a victory march for realising people’s rights,” the BNP Secretary General said while inaugurating the road march at Gabtoli in the capital.

Mirza Fakhurl asked the Awami League government to quit saying the people don’t want to see them in power anymore.
The BNP leader alleged that the Election Commission staged a mockery in the name of by-polls to Dhaka-17 on Monday.
He said they along with 36 other opposition parties have started a new journey for the restoration of democracy through the march programme. “We will achieve victory through this journey by realising our one-point demand. We will defeat this dreadful hideous regime and form a government and parliament of the people soon,” he said.

Mirza Fakhrul said the people of entire country have woken up to get back their lost rights and get rid of the misrule of the Awami League government.
The BNP leader urged the government to step down and dissolve parliament by handing over power to a neutral government.
He said that not only BNP but also 36 other political parties simultaneously announced on July 12 that the current regime must resign immediately. The people of this country no longer want to see Awami League in power.

The BNP Secretary General called upon all the democratic political parties, organisations and professional bodies to take to the streets to protect the country and its people by ousting the Awami League regime.
Referring the Monday’s by-polls to Dhaka-17, he said the ruling party could not take voters to the polling stations by installing a heavy-weight candidate and its main think-tank Mohammad Ali Arafat against Hero Alam.

“The polling stations of Dhaka-17 were found empty. The crippled, worthless and subservient Election Commission showed 11pc voter turnout,” he said.
“We saw that there were no voters anywhere…after the announcement of the results, Arafat showed the victory sign. It’s a matter of shame. Hero Alam, a non-political personality, was beaten and driven out of the polling station made it a mockery,” Mirza Fakhrul said.

He criticised the silent role of police while a candidate was attacked in front of a polling station.
The BNP leader said, “While the people in Dhaka have been facing a hard time due to a serious outbreak of dengue, the Dhaka South City Corporation mayor went to Europe for a vacation. The Health Minister went to America. What a sense of responsibility they have!”
As part of their one-point movement, thousands of leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate bodies joined the march towards the Roy Saheb Bazar in the old part of Dhaka from Gabtali Bus Station.
Fakhrul formally inaugurated the programme around 11:20am and it will end at the Roy Saheb Bazar intersection at 4:00pm.