BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to address a public rally at Balurmath in Narsingdi Sadar upazila on Sunday to woo public support in favour of the opposition’s demand for arranging the next polls under a non-party administration.
As part of their movement strategy, the BNP-led 18-party alliance is arranging the rally scheduled to begin around 2pm.
Khaleda will start her journey for Narsingdi from her Gulshan residence around 1pm, her media wing member Sayrul Kabir khan told UNB.
This will be the first rally out of eight the 18-party chalked out to hold in eight regions of the country to increase people’s involvement in their ongoing anti-government campaign and in a bid to force the government to restore now-abolished caretaker government system to oversee the polls.
On August 19, a day after the Prime Minister’s announcement that her government would not budge even an inch from the constitutional provision in holding the next general election, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the schedules of the rallies at a press conference.
After Narsingdi, Khaleda, also the leader of the opposition in parliament, will address rallies in Rangpur on September 15 while Rajshahi on September 16, Khulna on September 22, Barisal on September 29 and Sylhet on October 5.
She will also address rallies in Dhaka and Chittagong after Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims.
There has already been huge enthusiasm among the people of Narsingdi and its adjoining districts centring the rally as Khaleda is going to Narsingdi after nearly two decades.
Party leaders are expecting that more that two lakhs people will join the rally.
Khaleda’s last public meeting at Narsingdi Stadium ground was in 1992.
Earlier on Friday, BNP vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman, who is supervising the activities of the 18-party to make the rally a success, at a press briefing said the rally will turn into a human sea, and they are taking every necessary preparation in this regard.
Noman hoped that seeing the people’s spontaneous participation in the 18- 18-party’s rally, the government will take steps for restoring the caretaker government system.
A meeting of the 18-party’s secretaries general was also held with Noman in the chair on the day and elaborately discussed how to make the Narsingdi rally a success.
Party sources said Khaleda in her address will depict the country’s sordid state describing the government’s failures to run the state, misdeeds, corruption and repressive acts, justify the demand for restoration of the caretaker government and roll out her party’s plan to carry out development of the country and Narsingdi if it returns to power.
Source: UNBConnect
