BNP's Dhaka south, north units stage marches in Motijheel, Uttara

The leaders and activists of BNP’s Dhaka south and north city units on Friday brought out separate silent processions in the capital to press home the party’s 10-point demand, including holding the next polls under a non-party caretaker government.

The organisers said the march programme is also meant for registering the party’s protest against the rise in the prices of power and gas and essential items, repression on the opposition and mounting pressure on the government to release party chairperson Khaleda Zia without any condition.

As per the party’s plan, BNP’s Dhaka south city started a march from Motijheel to Nayabazar around 4:05 pm.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir along with party standing committee members Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman took part after a brief address.

Through the silent march, Fakhrul said , they would send out a message to the city dwellers to wake up and put up a resistance against the current government’s misrule and repressive acts and failure to run the country and check the growing prices of essential items.

“The government has turned the country into a failed state. They badly destroyed the country and its institutions. The USA did not invite Bangladesh to its Summit for Democracy. It’s a matter of shame,” the BNP leader said.

He said Awami League is basically a 'terrorist party' and it always wants to cling to power by force. “BNP and the country’s people won't go to any more polls under the Awami League government."

Fakhrul said the common people are gradually getting poorer while the ruling party men are getting richer by indulging in corruption and plundering.