Govt out to foil tomorrow's rally:BNP
The main opposition BNP yesterday accused the government of obstructing the campaign for tomorrow's grand rally from where Khaleda Zia is set to announce an anti-government agitation programme demanding restoration of caretaker government system.
“Police were arresting our leaders and workers to foil the rally. Even, they arrested many workers while they were setting posters and banners. Many of our party leaders are being threatened,” said Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, joint secretary general of the party, at a press briefing at the party's central office in Nayapaltan in the city.
The rally will start at 2:00pm in front of the central office, as the authorities concerned did not give permission to use the Paltan Maidan for the rally, he said.
Rizivi said the government is not letting them to publicise the programme but BNP will make the planned rally a success to reply to the government's efforts to obstruct it.
Meanwhile, chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night held meeting with the party leaders who had contested in last general elections as party candidate in the capital and its adjacent areas.
She also held separate meetings with senior leaders, former members of parliament and eight like-minded parties at her Gulshan office on Saturday night.
Meeting sources said leaders and former lawmakers of Dhaka and adjacent areas assured the chairperson of gathering a huge number of supporters to make the rally a human sea to show their political strength.
Parties under BNP-led four-party alliance and eight like-minded parties will also attend the rally.
The party leaders hoped that few other political parties like Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh, Liberal Democratic Party and Kalyan Party will also join the rally to express their solidarity to BNP's demand.
Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami acting Ameer Maqbul Ahmed and acting secretary general Shafiqur Rahman in a statement urged the people to make the rally a successful.
They also demanded release of their arrested leaders.
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