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Ctg Road March

BNP prepares to go for next round of agitation

Staff Correspondent
The main opposition BNP is yet to finalise the next course of its movement which the party chairperson is expected to announce in the Chittagong polo ground rally on Monday.
Party insiders said Chairperson Khaleda Zia may sit with the senior leaders today in this regard. If this meeting does not come out with a decision she will finalise the party's next course of action at the circuit house in the port city Sunday night.
BNP is scheduled to organise a two-day road march towards Chittagong on January 8-9 to drum up support for the reinstatement of caretaker governmentsystem.
Khaleda Zia will leave Dhaka Sunday and will hold street rallies in Chandina and Comilla and address a rally in Feni.
Meanwhile, with numerous billboards, posters and banners everywhere Chittagong has worn a festive look, reports our staff correspondent there.
Leaders of all BNP units in the city are now busy round the clock in holding preparatory meetings, rallies and processions to make the road march a success.
Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Chittagong unit president of BNP, hoped that the road march and the grand rally would be a testimony of people's
enthusiastic and peaceful involvement in a democratic movement.
"The people of the country are dissatisfied with the government's anti-people activities as the state is going through economic, social and political crises," Khasru told The Daily Star.
He, however, hoped that the ruling party would not hinder their rally.
Meanwhile, at least 10 people were injured Thursday evening in a clash between two groups of BNP Dagonbhuiyan upazila unit over the preparation of a street rally for Khaleda Zia.
Police and party sources said supporters of BNP upazila president Akbar Hossain and Dagonbhuiyan municipality vice-president Jashim Uddin were locked into a scuffle at a preparatory meeting in Koreshmunshi Bazar. They later clashed inTetulia area.
Security in Chittagong has been beefed up. Additional police will be
deployed at key points of the road-march route, said a senior police official in Dhaka yesterday requesting anonymity.
He said plain-clothes law enforcers will also be deployed so that no quarter can disrupt the law and order taking advantage of the road march.
Meanwhile, BNP Vice-Chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka said the road march towards Chittagong will be the biggest-ever in the country.
“Some 4,000 vehicles will start the convoy in Dhaka while another 2,000 will join on the way to Chittagong. Preparations are complete," said Khoka, also chief of the road-march management committee.
He was speaking at a press conference at the party's Naya Paltan head office yesterday evening. He said they are in touch with the law enforcers to ensure security of those joining the road march.