Rescheduling the date of protest rally for Monday instead of Sunday the BNP on Saturday night said they would stage the programme demanding cancellation of the January 5 election.
The protest rally was also called to protest the DMP’s refusal to permit the BNP to carry out its black-flag procession in the capital on January 29.
Although the party was scheduled to hold a rally at the capital’s Suhrawardy Udyan on Saturday, the programme had been shifted to Sunday due to Biswa Ijtema and inauguration of the Ekushey Book Fair.
However, on Saturday they again changed the date of protest rally to Monday because of of Akheri Munajat of Bishwa Ijtema.
“The protest rally will be held on Monday instead of Sunday as the Akheri Munajat will be offered on Sunday,” Abdus Salam, member secretary of Dhaka city unit BNP, told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
Earlier, at a press briefing BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi claimed that the Awami League government was taking vengeance on the people of the country as they had rejected the January 5 “farcical poll”.
He made the remarks while addressing a press briefing at the Party’s Nayapaltan office on Saturday. Rivzi said: “The illegal government has exposed its anarchic image in a new dimension to stay at the illegal power forever.
It is taking revenge on people as they have rejected the January 5 farcical polls,” he added.
Claiming that the government is killing the common people of the country through “crossfire,” he said: “The government is conducting killing operations on innocent people across the country in order to defend the farcical and shameful poll.”
Regarding Saturday’s countrywide protest programmes, he said: “We were barred from staging our protest programmes in different parts of the country. The members of the law enforcing agencies attacked our peaceful processions with the help of Awami League goons.”
He further said: “The law enforcers are killing our people [19-party members] in crossfire and arresting them in false charges in order to ruin the BNP.”