Khaleda at rally venue
BNP
chairperson Khaleda Zia has reached Suhrawardy Udyan amid the cheers
from thousands of opposition activists who gathered there to attend a
key anti-government rally.
The BNP-led 18-party opposition is holding the rally to show of its
strength as it pursues the government to install a neutral polls-time
government.
Braving drizzle that continues since the morning, hundreds of opposition workers — mainly of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir — reached the rally venue.
Though the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), while issuing permission, slapped a condition that no processions could be brought out, opposition men, especially the Shibir men, marched the streets with processions.
BNP Dhaka city unit Convener Sadek Hossain Khoka is presiding over the rally.
The Jamaat-Shibir activists took position at the front side.
There was however no reports of law enforcers or any other quarters obstructing the opposition workers.
A huge contingent of police and members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have been deployed in and around the rally venue.
With the rally scheduled to begin at 2:00pm, thousands of workers gathered at Matsya Bhaban.
“We will start marching towards Suhrawardy Udyan before the rally begins,” a BNP ward-level leader told reporters.
After a daylong drama, the opposition alliance last night decided to hold the rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in keeping with the DMP permission.
Tension ran high as the opposition announced last evening that it would organise the programme in Nayapaltan area, while the DMP said it would allow the opposition only at Suhrawardy Udyan.
Braving drizzle that continues since the morning, hundreds of opposition workers — mainly of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir — reached the rally venue.
Though the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), while issuing permission, slapped a condition that no processions could be brought out, opposition men, especially the Shibir men, marched the streets with processions.
BNP Dhaka city unit Convener Sadek Hossain Khoka is presiding over the rally.
The Jamaat-Shibir activists took position at the front side.
There was however no reports of law enforcers or any other quarters obstructing the opposition workers.
A huge contingent of police and members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have been deployed in and around the rally venue.
With the rally scheduled to begin at 2:00pm, thousands of workers gathered at Matsya Bhaban.
“We will start marching towards Suhrawardy Udyan before the rally begins,” a BNP ward-level leader told reporters.
After a daylong drama, the opposition alliance last night decided to hold the rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in keeping with the DMP permission.
Tension ran high as the opposition announced last evening that it would organise the programme in Nayapaltan area, while the DMP said it would allow the opposition only at Suhrawardy Udyan.
