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BNP beaming

Counts its gains out of govt's wrong decisions

Rakib Hasnet Suman
Opposition leaders believe that they gained leverage over the government in the last few days largely due to the government's “wrong decisions" centering on their mass procession programmes in the country.
The death of five people on the streets, imposition of a ban on the opposition's programmes, and the ruling party's counter-political programmes bore testimony to the state of the government, they claimed.
They say that this eventually helped the opposition earn public sympathy.
“The recent activities of the government showed intolerance and instability inside the government. Undoubtedly, these activities helped the BNP gain public support...,’’ BNP standing committee member Rafiqul Islam Mia told The Daily Star.
Referring to the political events centering on his party's mass procession programme, Moudud Ahmed, another member of the committee, said the government was basically defeated on January 29.
The BNP was scheduled to bring out mass processions on Sunday (January 29) across the country, but the government imposed a ban on rallies and gatherings in Dhaka and other metropolitan cities for Sunday. On January 26, the ruling party’s city unit called a rally for January 29, which also created tension in the political arena.
Complying with the ban, the BNP rescheduled its procession programme to Monday (January 30). For its part, the Awami League also postponed its rally.
Interestingly, the ruling party once again called a rally for Monday, with the pro-Awami League youth organisation Juba League announcing a human chain for the day.
The BNP on Sunday brought out processions in all districts since there was no ban on processions there. But police resorted to gunfire on the processions in Chandpur and Laxmipur that left four people dead. On Monday, a Jamaat-e-Islami man was killed in Rajshahi during a clash with police.
The situation went against the government when police fired on opposition processions and obstructed scheduled processions in the cities by imposing bans, observed BNP high-ups who did not wish to be named.
“In fact, the last few days' events reflect the government's overall failure to run the country. So, it is natural people's support will come towards us," RA Gani, senior member of the BNP standing committee, told The Daily Star.
He said it seemed that the government was deliberately trying to trigger a conflict, “ but people do not like it and that is why everything, whatever the Awami League did in the last couple of days went against the Awami League”.
“They [the ruling party] wanted to foil our mass processions but people rejected the attempt by making the programme successful across the country," he said. He noted that the people appreciated the BNP's decision to defer the date for bringing out the processions while the Awami League was highly criticised for coming forward with programmes to counter the opposition.