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BNP's dilemma over Ctg div road march

Local leaders decline to hold it before Eid

Rakib Hasnet Suman
The main opposition BNP is now in a dilemma about its October 25 road march in the port city, as party leaders in Chittagong division are unwilling to hold the programme before Eid-ul-Azha.
The party had considered Khulna as an alternate venue but the leaders there ruled out the option due to worsening flood situation in the region.
Top BNP leaders from Khulna met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday night and informed her about the flood situation in their
area, said party insiders.
Chittagong City BNP President Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday told The Daily Star that road march towards Chittagong will be held after hajj and Eid.
“It will not be possible to organise such a big programme before Eid, as most party leaders and activists as well as the common people will be busy with Eid and hajj," he said.
On getting the opinion of BNP leaders in Chittagong, Khaleda talked to Khulna leaders, who discouraged holding the programme there this month.
They said it would not be a good decision to pick Khulna as a venue for road march this month, as nearly one million people have been affected by floods in the region.
Khaleda Zia on September 27 announced road march towards three divisional headquarters --Sylhet, Rajshahi and Chittagong -and public meetings in Sylhet, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Feni andBogra.
If the road march towards Chittagong gets cancelled, public meetings in Feni and Chittagong on October 25 and 26 will be suspended.
Unlike the September 27 rally, BNP will organise the road march on its own. But it will hold the public meetings under the banner of the four-party alliance to allow its allies especially Jamaat-e-Islami to participate in the programme.
A coordination committee headed by BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain had been formed to make successful its programmes in Sylhet on October 10 and 11.
Another road march towards Rajshahi will start on October 18. Khaleda will address a public meeting in Bogra the same day. She will address a public meeting in Rajshahi the next day.
A senior BNP leader said the party's high command asked the local BNP units and its allies to work together for the public meetings.