BNP’s black-flag procession today

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Staff Reporter :
The BNP will bring out a black-flag procession in the capital today (Saturday), as a sign of protest against the government’s reigned to the party’s plan for public rally on Thursday.
“The government has frozen our democratic rights. They did not give us permission to hold a rally on Thursday in the city. In protest, we shall bring out a black-flag procession in the capital on Saturday,” BNPs Senior Joint-Secretary
General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced it at a press conference on Wednesday.
He programmed it as part of the party’s ongoing demonstration against the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia.
The party planned to start the black-flag procession from in front of its Nayapaltan party office at 11am. BNP Joint-Office Secretary Taiful Islam Tipu told The New Nation.
He said also BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other senior leaders will join it.
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