Once the Awami League quits power, a national unity government will be formed under the leadership of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, according to Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury.
The people have decided not to join any election under the current government, he said during a discussion at the National Press Club on Friday.
Referring to Jubo League's rally at the capital's Suhrawary Udyan the same day, the BNP leader claimed that the ruling party supporters were travelling on government-owned buses to reach the venue.
Praising the supporters of the BNP, he said that party men arrived in Faridpur from distant areas ahead of its divisional rally in the city despite facing obstacles.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, along with central leaders, reached Faridpur on Friday. BNP Organizing Secretary Shama Obaid confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.
Shama Obaid said that the secretary general arrived at Komorpur Abdul Aziz Institution ground, located 6kms from Faridpur city, around 6:30pm.
Faridpur minibus owners enforced a 36-hour transport strike since yesterday, demanding a ban on three-wheeler movement on highways.
Additionally, bus services on the Dhaka to Gopalganj, Fardipur, and Daulatdia-Paturia routes were suspended yesterday.
Several thousand leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate bodies from five districts—Faridpur, Rajbari, Shariatpur, Madaripur and Gopalganj—under the division reached the city in advance to join the rally.
BNP activists from the nearby districts were seen coming to the rally venue by train, trucks and small vehicles like human haulers, auto rickshaws, three-wheelers, motorbikes, and micro-buses since Thursday.
Our Faridpur correspondent Rashedul Hasan Kajal contributed to the report