Staff Reporter :
Jatiya Oikya Front, the newly formed opposition platform, will hold its first programme through holding a grand rally in Sylhet city on October 23 to attain public support to its seven-point demand to hold an inclusive national election.
“We will go to Sylhet on October 23 and offer fateha at the shrines of Hazrat Shah Jalal ® and Shah Paran ®, and then hold a grand rally in the city to highlight our demands to hold a credible national election,” Oikya front leader and JSD President ASM Abdur Rab said this after the first meeting of the alliance at his Uttara residence in the city.
Rab said, after Sylhet, the Oikya Front will hold public rallies in all other divisional cities, including Chattogram, Rajshahi, Khulna and Rangpur.
He said the Oikya Front leaders at their meeting took two decisions-one is to form a liaison committee involving the alliance leaders and holding grand rallies.
The meeting began around 12:15pm and continued for around two-and-a-half hours.
“The front leaders will hold another meeting on Wednesday, and then announce the names of the liaison committee members,” Rab said.
He said the Oikya Front is seeking cooperation of the government and the administration to peacefully hold their democratic programmes ahead of the national election.
Former adviser of the caretaker government Barrister Mainul Hosein also attended the meeting. Apart from Abdur Rab and Barrister Mainul, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, JSD General Secretary Abdul Malek Ratan, Gana Forum Executive President Subrata Chowdhury, General Secretary Mostafa Mohsin Montu, Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, and former VP of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) Sultan Mohammad Mansur were present at the meeting.
