Staff Correspondent:
\nThe leaders and activists of BNP\u2019s Dhaka south and north city units on Friday brought out separate silent processions in the capital to press home the party\u2019s 20-point demand, including holding the next polls under a non-party caretaker government.
\nThe organisers said the march programme is also meant for registering the party\u2019s protest against the rise in the prices of power and gas and essential items, repression on the opposition and mounting pressure on the government to release party chairperson Khaleda Zia without any condition.As per the party\u2019s plan, BNP\u2019s Dhaka south city started a march from Motijheel to Nayabazar around 4:05 pm.
\nBNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir along with party standing committee members Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman took part after a brief address.
\nThrough the silent march, Fakhrul said, they would send out a message to the city dwellers to wake up and put up a resistance against the current government\u2019s misrule and repressive acts and failure to run the country and check the growing prices of essential items.\u201cThe government has turned the country into a failed state. They badly destroyed the country and its institutions. The USA did not invite Bangladesh to its Summit for Democracy. It\u2019s a matter of shame,\u201d the BNP leader said.
\nHe said Awami League is basically a ‘terrorist party’ and it always wants to cling to power by force. \u201cBNP and the country\u2019s people won’t go to any more polls under the Awami League government.”Fakhrul said the common people are gradually getting poorer while the ruling party men are getting richer by indulging in corruption and plundering.
\nThe BNP leader said the government has been using law enforcers to hang onto power illegally by force. \u201cThe USA imposed sanctions on RAB as they indulged in extra-judicial killings at the behest of the government. \u201cThey (govt) are now using police to kill the opposition leaders and activists and repress them.\u201d
\nHe also said the constitution must be amended since the country\u2019s problems cannot be resolved in line with the current national charter.Earlier, the leaders and activists of BNP\u2019s Dhaka north city started a march from Uttara to Abdullahpur around 3:35pm.BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain inaugurated the programme along with other party senior leaders, including Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan and Abdul Awal Mintoo.In a brief address before taking out the procession, Mosharraf said their party has been on the streets with different programmes to realise public demands and to protest public sufferings as people are going through a tough time due to the misrule of the Awami League government.
\nHe said their programmes are drawing huge public support, prompting the ruling party to come up with counter programmes out of fear of losing power. \u201cAwami League is holding counter programmes, exposing its political bankruptcy.\u201d
\nThe BNP leader said the people and the foreigners now can realise that no credible election can be held under the Awami League government. \u201cThat\u2019s why foreign leaders and envoys are giving the government sermons about credible polls.\u201d
\nMosharraf urged the party leaders and activists to peacefully hold the programme as they did in the past without responding to any provocation.housands of leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies joined the two separate programmes, carrying banners, national and party flags, festoons and portraits of the party’s top leaders.A huge number of law enforcers have been deployed in the areas to maintain law and order and fend off any untoward incidents.Apart from BNP, LPD, Gonoforum, People\u2019s Party, Jatiyatabadi Samamona Jote and Peshajibi Ganatantrik Jote also staged the march programme in different areas of the capital at different times on Friday as part of the simultaneous movement to oust the current government.
\nBNP\u2019s all others metropolitan city units will hold a similar programme on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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