BNP readies for June 27 hartal

22 June 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

BNP and its front and associate organisations have been preparing to make the June-27 dawn-to-dusk hartal successful. The party's alliance partners have expressed their solidarity with the programme and said that they would also be active on the streets on that day. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia called the hartal on a number of issues like ensuring supply of gas, electricity and water, and stopping extortion, tender manipulation and land grabbing by ruling party activists, and scrapping the "anti-national" deals signed with India. There will be mass contact, small processions and distribution of leaflets and pasting of posters at different places of the capital in support of the hartal, the first since the current government assumed power. Senior leaders of BNP yesterday held a preparatory meeting with BNP leaders of Dhaka district unit and adjacent areas. All presidents and general secretaries of all units and former MP candidates under Dhaka district sat with the party's standing committee members yesterday at the chairperson's Gulshan office. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain chaired the meeting and presidents and general secretaries of Narayanganj, Narsingdi, Gazipur, Manikganj and Munshiganj districts were present. Abdul Moyeen Khan, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Prof MA Mannan, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Amanullah Aman, Khairul Kabir Kokhon and Abdus Salam were also present. Earlier, Khaleda Zia herself sat with leaders of like-minded parties including Jamaat-e-Islami. Following the meeting Jamaat expressed their support for the hartal.