The BNP-led 19-party alliance will stage rallies across the country on Saturday protesting the law enforcers’ obstruction to their black-flag processions, killing of a BNP leader and attacks on their activists.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday announced the programme at a press conference at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office in the city.
The rallies will be held at all the divisional cities, district towns and upazila headquarters throughout the country.
In the capital, the programme will be held at Suhrawardy Udyan.
Addressing the press conference, Fakhrul alleged that the law enforcers attacked their peaceful black-flag processions at various parts of the country without any provocation.
He claimed that a Jubo Dal leader, Piarul Islam, was killed in Satkhira as police opened fire on a party procession there.
The alliance’s spokesmen also claimed that many leaders and activists of the alliance were injured in the police attacks.
Besides, he said police arrested a number of their leaders and activists across the country.
Fakhrul alleged that like the other parts of the country, police also attacked their leaders and activists at different wards in the Dhaka city when they tried to observe the programme at their respective wards, being denied by Dhaka Metropolitan Police to hold the black-flag procession on the city’s streets.
The BNP-led 19-party alliance was scheduled to take out black-flag processions across the country, including the capital, on Wednesday protesting the sitting of the 10th parliament formed through what the party said January-5 ‘farcical and voter-less’ elections.
But the party could not stage the programme as the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) denied them permission.
Source: UNB Connect
