BNP brought out a colourful rally in the city, marking the 46th Independence and National Day yesterday.
Thousands of leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies carrying banners, placards and portraits of party top leaders joined the procession which started from the party’s Nayapaltan central office around 3:20pm, reports UNB.
The procession paraded different roads through Bijoynagar, Kakrail and Shantinagar and concluded at Malibagh crossing.
In a brief address prior to bringing out the procession, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urged party leaders and activists to be united, putting behind all conflicts and differences among them to “restore” democracy through a movement.
“Now people have no rights to expression. The press freedom has also been snatched. The spirit of establishing democracy with which we’d taken part in the Liberation War is now missing. We all must get united forgetting all trivial misunderstandings and divisions to get back democracy and voting rights,” he said.
The BNP leader bemoaned that even after the 45 years of the country’s independence, the nations is still shouting to restore democracy.
“We’re still staging movements to realise our democratic rights. As a nation, it’s very unfortunate for us,” he said.
Mentioning that people have no democratic rights now in the country, the BNP leader said: “Our youths and our sons are now sacrificing their lives for democracy.”
Fakhrul said the country’s people have no security of their lives and property. “The money of central bank is also being looted.”
He called upon the country’s people to be vocal to have their rights restored.