BNP leaders and activists have begun assembling in front of the party's Naya Paltan headquarters since 7:30am on Saturday to participate in their grand rally, emphasizing their one-point demand.
The rally, scheduled to commence at 12pm, has witnessed thousands of party members chanting slogans in support of their cause throughout the morning.
Along the stretch from Kakrail intersection to Notre Dame College, a considerable number of BNP leaders and activists have occupied both sides of the road, although senior leaders are yet to arrive.
Defying the senior leaders’ instructions, several thousand opposition activists thronged Nayapaltan on Friday afternoon in advance and stayed there overnight.
Visiting the rally venue around 9am, thousands of opposition activists were seen coming from different parts of the city.
Wearing colourful caps, carrying banners, festoons, placards and portraits of the party’s top leaders, they were shouting anti-government slogans as they converged on the venue.
The roads and alleys stretching from Kakrail to Arambagh are filled to the brim with BNP activists, halting traffic in the area, reports UNB.
Many leaders and activists of the party alleged that they had to face checking and barricades by law enforcers at the entry points and several locations in Dhaka while presence of buses on the streets was very thin.
BNP’s Dhaka north and south city units are organizing the rally to press home the opposition’s one-point demand for holding the upcoming national election under a non-party government.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is expected to formally declare the party's one-point movement, aimed at removing the Awami League from power to ensure the upcoming national elections under a neutral government.
The rally features a temporary stage set up in front of the party office.