Staff Reporter :
The BNP on Sunday announced a countrywide protest demonstration on Monday in view of the government’s refusal to give permission for organising November 7 rally in the capital.
The party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir disclosed it in a press briefing at the party’s Naya Paltan office.
He said, the leaders and the activists of Dhaka city unit of BNP will stage demonstration and rally in the city’s every thana, and it will be observed in other Metropolitan cities and every district town.
Mirza Fakhrul condemned and protested the role of administration in suppressing the right to
speech and right to organizing the political meeting.
Mirza Fakhrul questioned “Why will the democratic and fundamental rights of a person or of a political party be taken away when there is no State of Emergency in the country?”
“The autocratic government fears the BNP and that is why it was not giving permission for holding rallies, which is its basic right,” he said.
The BNP had a plan to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Sunday marking the ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’.
The police authorities and the Public Works Department did not allow the party to arrange the rally.
The party’s central leader Abdus Salam, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Khairul Kabir Khokon, among others, were present.
The BNP on Sunday announced a countrywide protest demonstration on Monday in view of the government’s refusal to give permission for organising November 7 rally in the capital.
The party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir disclosed it in a press briefing at the party’s Naya Paltan office.
He said, the leaders and the activists of Dhaka city unit of BNP will stage demonstration and rally in the city’s every thana, and it will be observed in other Metropolitan cities and every district town.
Mirza Fakhrul condemned and protested the role of administration in suppressing the right to
speech and right to organizing the political meeting.
Mirza Fakhrul questioned “Why will the democratic and fundamental rights of a person or of a political party be taken away when there is no State of Emergency in the country?”
“The autocratic government fears the BNP and that is why it was not giving permission for holding rallies, which is its basic right,” he said.
The BNP had a plan to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Sunday marking the ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’.
The police authorities and the Public Works Department did not allow the party to arrange the rally.
The party’s central leader Abdus Salam, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Khairul Kabir Khokon, among others, were present.
