report in The Daily Star, Sept 14, 2023
The BNP has planned to hold rallies in 19 districts and organise marches from one district to another this month to realise its one-point demand for election under a non-partisan government, insiders say.
Supporters from the adjacent districts will be asked to join these rallies, they add.
Members of the party’s standing committee, its highest policymaking body, made a draft of these programmes on Tuesday night and sent it to the top leaders, according to sources.
The BNP wants to make an impact with these programmes over the next one month, they add.
The standing committee held a meeting online on Monday night and another one in person on Tuesday night. The programmes were discussed in the meetings.
After finalising the draft, the standing committee sent it to BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman.
A formal announcement of these events is likely to come next week after the matters are discussed with the like-minded political parties.
Meanwhile, BNP’s associate bodies — Jubo Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal and Chhatra Dal — will march from Rangpur to Dinajpur on September 16, and from Bogura to Rajshahi the next day.
The associate bodies were supposed to organise five marches, but they eventually decided on two as the BNP will observe the same programme.
“We are at the final stage of the movement. Programmes will come one after another. We will go home after ousting the government,” BNP standing committee member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku told The Daily Star.
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