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March 12 Rally in Dhaka

BNP to go tough if govt obstructs

Rakib Hasnet Suman
As BNP prepares to make its March 12 rally in the capital a hit, its policymakers are at once considering measures to take on any possible government obstruction on and before the rally day.
The main opposition party might go for tougher programmes like instant sit-in and hartal if its supporters are kept from joining the showdown, BNP sources said.
On January 9, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from a Chittagong rally declared the March 12 rally titled "Cholo cholo, Dhaka cholo" (Let's march towards Dhaka) in efforts to mount pressure on the government to restore the caretaker government system.
The government in June last year scrapped the caretaker system and amended the constitution, allowing instead the incumbent political administration to oversee general elections.
BNP maintains it will not participate in polls unless it is held under a non-partisan caretaker government. The party has also threatened to compel the Awami League-led government to restore it.
The party is also planning to form a search committee that will find quality leadership for different bodies of the party ahead of its upcom-ing anti-government programmes.
"Given the government's attitude, it is only normal that there will be moves to foil our rally. We're devising strategies to make our programme successful through all possible obstructions," Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman, a member of the party's standing committee, told The Daily Staryesterday.
On Thursday, Khaleda warned the government against any attempt to target the rally and said any such effort to that end will be a "grave mistake".
Earlier on Wednesday night, she held a meeting with the coordination committee formed to organise people across the country for joining the rally, party sources said.
Emerging from the meeting, standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy said people will take position on the street if they are obstructed on their way to the capital.
Khaleda directed her party leaders to ensure participation of people from all the districts and asked them to exercise highest restraint for a peaceful programme.
The meeting had decided that chiefs of 45 subcommittees would visit their assigned areas and hold meetings, rallies and processions to drum up support for the rally.
A senior BNP leader said the party believes that the government will not let the rally happen smoothly. “But we won't leave it unchallenged. The government will face tough resistance,” he said, asking not to be named.
Referring to the killing of four opposition activists in Laxmipur and Chandpur on January 29, Mahbubur Rahman said the government could not tolerate a procession even in the district level. It shows how badly the government would try to foil the Dhaka rally, he added.