As part of the ongoing simultaneous movement, the BNP and its associate bodies and like-minded parties are set to march in all thanas under the divisional cities on March 4 (next Saturday) to press home their 10-point demand, including holding the next general election under a non-party caretaker government.
The programme is also meant for registering the opposition parties’ protest against the rise in the prices of power, gas and essential items, and pressure the government to release BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia without any condition, essentially to drop the 'false' cases against her, and now and to accept the party’s 10-point demand.
The main opposition party announced the road march after its similar programme in all districts of the country last week.
In a press release today (Friday), BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called upon the party leaders and activists and common people to make the road march programme a success with their spontaneous participation.
In another press release, BNP’s Dhaka south and north city units said their party leaders and activists will arrange the march programme in all thanas in the capital.
Party standing committee members and senior ones will lead the programmes.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is likely to launch the programme at Uttara at 2pm.
Apart from BNP, Ganotantra Mancha will march in front of the Jatiya Press Club while Gonoforum and People's Party in Arambagh, Jatiyatabadi Samamona Jote in Bijoynagar and Peshajibi Ganatantrik Jote in Purana Paltan in the capital at different at 11am the same day.
From December last year, BNP and like-minded parties and alliances started a simultaneous movement to bring down the government, or at least realise the all-important caretaker or non-party provision ahead of the next election.
Besides, the leaders and activists of BNP’s Dhaka north and south city units observed the march programme in five areas in the capital since January 28.
The party also arranged a similar programme in all unions, districts and divisional cities across the country to press home their 10-point demand.
Source: United News of Bangladesh