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BNP Rally Today

Khaleda to announce agitation

Staff Correspondent
BNP has made all-out preparations for today's rally in the capital where the party chairperson will declare agitation programme to compel the government to restore the caretaker government system.
The rally will be held in front of BNP's central office at the city's Naya Paltan at 2:00pm. It will be the biggest political rally in recent times, said Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, chief of BNP's Dhaka city unit.
BNP chief Khaleda Zia had declared that her
party would not accept general elections without the supervision of a nonpartisan caretaker government. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, however, on Sunday at a programme in New York reiterated that the next election will be held under the political government.
The caretaker government system was scrapped through the fifteenth amendment of the constitution.
Opposition leaders said that besides agitation programme like road march and demonstration, Khaleda in her address may declare a time limit for the government to fulfil their demands.
MK Anwar, a member of the party's standing committee, said they will call hartal if the government tries to foil their programme today.
Meanwhile, at a press briefing at the party's central office, city Mayor Khoka said the government would be responsible for public suffering including traffic congestion in the capital today as it did not allow the opposition to hold the rally at Paltan Maidan.
The rally is the first of its kind organised by BNP since 2008 general elections. Eight like-minded parties and a few other political parties, which want restoration of the caretaker system, will also join the rally.
Khoka urged the private TV channels to broadcast Khaleda's speech, saying "People are waiting to hear her announce the programme."
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP acting secretary general, held a meeting with party leaders at the Naya Paltan office yesterday afternoon to review the preparations and security measures ahead of the rally.
BNP standing committee last night sat with the party chairperson to draw up the agitation programme. Meeting sources said the policy makers have finalised plans for road marches from the capital to Sylhet, Chittagong and Rajshahi.
BNP leaders also distributed leaflets at different points of the city yesterday urging people to attend the rally.