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Anti-government Movement

Pro-BNP professionals plan rallies after Eid

Staff Correspondent
Three pro-BNP platforms of professionals will join the final stage of the opposition's anti-government agitation by holding rallies in the capital shortly after Eid-ul-Azha.
They have also planned to observe strike at workplaces and stage sit-ins to reinforce BNP's demand for restoration of the caretaker government system, said leaders of the organisations.
Bangladesh Sammilito Peshajibi Parishad, Shikkhak Karmachari Oikya Jote, and Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum will hold the rallies respectively on October 20, October 24 and October 26 where BNP chief Khaleda Zia will speak as chief guest, they told The Daily Star.
In the last month, Khaleda held several meetings with the professionals' bodies of different sectors to ensure their participation in the agitation.
BNP insiders said they believed that if the pro-BNP professionals joined the movement, it would help them win the public support.
A tension was created among the people with ruling Awami League leaders now saying parliament will continue to function after October 24 when it should be dissolved as an earlier decision.
In addition, both opposition and ruling parties have declared to hold rallies on October 24 and take control of the streets in the capital from that day.
Sources in the three associations of professionals said they had fixed the dates in a cmcial time so that they could go for tougher programmes from any rally.
A senior leader of Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum told The Daily Star that if the government did not permit the BNP-led 18-party alliance to rally in the capital, Khaleda Zia might announce the next course of action from their rally.
When asked, Mahbub Uddin, secretary general of the forum, declined to com- ment whether the BNP chief would make any announcement from that rally.
Sources at Shikkhak Karmachari Oikya Jote said that though their rally at Suhrawardy Udyan was aimed at pressing home professional demands, it would turn into an antigovernment movement, as October 24 was supposed to be the last day of the incumbentparliament.
AZM Zahid Hossain, secretary general of Sammilito Peshajibi Parishad, said they would hold a convention at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre demanding restoration of the caretaker system. "Our first priority is to press for restoring the system and then for professional rights."