The BNP has convened an ‘urgent’ press conference for Saturday after it failed to secure police permission in the last nine days for its planned rally on the same day at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka.
Party Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir would address the press meet at 11am at the party’s headquarters at Dhaka’s Naya Paltan.
Rizvi told reporters on Friday night: “It’s 10pm now. Still we haven’t got any permission letter. Party acting secretary general will speak about the next course of action tomorrow (Saturday) at 11am.”
BNP had applied for permission for its proposed Nov 7 rally marking the ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’ to Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner on Oct 27.
The party sent another letter to the DMP commissioner on Oct 29 informing him that it would organise the rally on Nov 8 instead of Nov 7 and sought permission for that.
BNP chief Khaleda Zia was supposed to address the gathering.
Party Joint Secretary General Barkat Ullah Bulu and Dhaka city committee adviser Abdus Salam went to DMP commissioner’s office at Bailey Road on Friday afternoon but came back empty-handed as they found no one there to talk about the permission.
Later at 8pm, Mirza Fakhrul sat with BNP city committee leaders to discuss the next course of action.
City committee convener Mirza Abbas and member secretary Habib Un Nabi Khan Sohel, party chairperson’s adviser Abdul Awal Mintu, Bulu and Rizvi were present at the meeting.
Source: Bd news24
BNP did not get permission to hold their “Jatiyo Biplob O Shonhoti Dibosh” rally at the Sarwardi Uddyan. The question is whether the people of Bangladesh have gone that low today that they have to accept this? The people who established their mother language in the world stage, who snatched the blood-red Sun to put it on their flag and put the country in the map of the world, who sacrificed thousands of Noor Hossains to establish democracy in the country, are going to accept that their democracy now looks like these dead bodies under the rifles of an autocratic regime?
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I think what BNP leaders, workers and the general mass who were attending the rally should do now is to peacefully gather in front of the DMP, and streets of Dhaka in protest of this undemocratic move by the government. If people let their democratic rights waste away like this, one day they will regret.
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Consistent denial of permission by the government to allow BNP, the larget opposition party in the country – and this is not the first time that the AL government has denied BNP the right to rally – it has not only insulted democracy but has also proven that as a party it has lost its moral right to govern. What is also shocking however is that the so-called mukti-juddher chetona walas who at every opportune moment scream loud for democracy do not seem to see any issue with an act that is beazenly undemocratic.
I agree with Mortuza Huq that by remaining slient the whole people of Bangladesh are revealing that as a nation it has lost its credibility as a democratic polity.