BNP, like-minded parties set to hold mass processions in Dhaka Saturday

BNP and its like-minded opposition parties are set to bring back their joint programmes to the political field, mass processions in the capital on Saturday as part of their simultaneous one-point movement.

This will be the sixth programme of the one-point movement of the opposition parties to mount pressure on the government to quit and hold the next election under a non-party caretaker government.

BNP’s Dhaka south and north city units and other parties and alliances will separately take out mass processions.

The Dhaka south city unit of BNP will take out a procession from near Kamalapur Railway Station at 2pm, which will end at Nayapaltan.

The north city unit will start a procession from Rampura at the same time, which will also end at Nayapaltan.

Apart from BNP, Ganotantra Mancha, 12-party alliance, Jatiyatabadi Samamona Jote, LDP, Gonoforum and People’s Party, Samamona Peshajibi Ganatantrik Jote, Gonotantrik Bam Oikya, Labour Party, Bangladesh Sadaran Chhatra Odhikar Sanrakshan Parishad and both factions of Gono Odhikar Parishad will also observe the programme separately in different areas of the capital.

On July 12 this year, BNP and the like-minded parties, i.e. those who not only oppose AL but also announced their one-point movement to realise their demands.

Their demands include the resignation of the current “fascist, authoritarian, people‍‍`s vote looter and illegal” Awami League government, dissolution of the existing parliament, formation of the polls-time impartial government and reconstitution of the Election Commission for arranging a free, fair and inclusive election, the release of all political prisoners, including BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, withdrawal of all false and phantom cases, including those against Tarique Rahman, and annulment of all false convictions.

Last December, BNP and like-minded parties and alliances started a simultaneous movement based on their common objective of ousting the present government to pave the way for holding the next election under a non-party neutral government.