BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia leaves for Sylhet on Friday and will address a public rally there on Saturday, aiming to drum up public support in favour of the opposition’s demand for arranging the next polls under a non-party administration.
As part of its movement strategy, the BNP-led 18-party alliance is going to arrange the rally at Sylhet Alia Madrasah ground.
The BNP chairperson will start her journey for Sylhet from her Gulshan residence around 3:30pm, Khaleda’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan told UNB on Thursday.
She is scheduled to stay overnight at Sylhet Circuit House on Friday and will address the rally on Saturday afternoon.
This will be the fifth out of eight the 18-party had planned to arrange in eight regions of the country to increase people’s involvement in their ongoing anti-government campaign to force the government to restore now-abolished caretaker government system to oversee the polls.
Earlier, the BNP chief addressed rallies in Narsingdi on September 8 while Rangpur on September 15 and Rajshahi on September 16 and Khulna on September 29.
Khaleda’s Barisal rally scheduled for September 29 was postponed and the fresh date for it will be announced later.
She will also address rallies in Dhaka and Chittagong after Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims.
Source: UNB Connect
