BNP announces demo today

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday announced that it would hold protest rallies across the country today protesting at the police decision of not allowing the party to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka.
The BNP had wanted to hold the rally on Wednes day to protest at Saturday’s police raid on the party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office.
The party would hold protest rallies at all metropolitan cities and district headquarters today as the police did not grant it permission for the Suhrawardy Udyan rally, said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
The party would also stage rallies at all the thanas of Dhaka district, he said while speaking at a press briefing at the party’s central office at Naya Paltan in the capital.
On Monday, the party had applied to Public Works Department and Dhaka Metropolitan Police seeking permission for holding the rally at Suhrawardy Udyan.
‘The DMP have not even told us anything about the application’, Rizvi said.
‘The denial of permission to hold the rally proves that the raid at BNP chairperson’s office was conducted upon instruction from prime minister Sheikh Hasina,’ remarked Rizvi.
‘The raid was a part of a blueprint — pre-planned and instructed by the head of the government’, he added.
Rizvi alleged that the law enforcement agencies were being used as ‘partisan goons’ against the BNP.
‘Some political parties, who can be seen through a microscope, are only allowed to hold rally at Suhrawardy Udyan, but the BNP is denied’, he said, adding that the government was afraid of the party.
Earlier, the BNP was denied permission to hold a rally in Dhaka making the May Day. The party could not hold another rally last year marking the November 7 uprising as the police had given the BNP a last minute permission to hold an indoor discussion attaching with it 27 conditions which realistically could not be fulfilled.
Replying to a question about the Election Commission’s plan to hold talks with political parties as part of the roadmap to holding the next general elections, Rizvi said that the BNP would sit with the EC.
He added that the BNP was against the electronic voting system and would discuss with the EC how the manual voting system could be used more transparently for a fair election. 

 

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