Sunday's Hunger Strike Venue
BNP applies for Nayapaltan
The opposition BNP has applied to the authorities concerned for allowing the party to stage Sunday's mass hunger strike at its central office premises in the capital's Nayapaltan.
An application has been forwarded, as party leaders think they might not be allowed to hold the programme at Mahanagar Natya Mancha or Institution of Engineers Bangladesh, party's central office sources said.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will lead the Sunday's hunger strike to pile up pressure on the government to return party's missing leader Ilias Ali and release top opposition leaders.
Meanwhile, party standing committee member Moudud Ahmed yesterday said the government would not be able to thwart the ongoing movement putting so many leaders in jail.
Addressing a discussion organised by Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB), a pro-BNP body, he said the government was hatching a conspiracy to keep top BNP leaders away from participating in the next general election.
Brushing aside the prime minister's Thursday remark that she knew how to handle the opposition, Moudud said the BNP also knew how to compel the government to realise its demand.
A public opinion has been formed worldwide about a non-partisan, neutral government in Bangladesh, he said, adding that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee also said of a participatory election.
“So there is no way to ignore our demand for the reinstatement of caretaker government system to oversee the next general election”, he said.
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