The local administration has deployed 60 Ansar members to guard the mural of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, installed at Bangabandhu Udyan, near the venue where BNP is holding its Barisal divisional rally on Saturday.
The 60 Ansar members in three shifts will perform their duties. Already a barricade had been erected surrounding the mural and restriction was also imposed on public entrance from Thursday evening.
Jashim Uddin, platoon commander of Ansar and VDP, said as per the directives of the deputy commissioner they are guarding the mural.
BNP is holding its fifth divisional rally at Bangabandhu Udyan in Barishal on Saturday.
Several thousand leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies from different districts under the divisions are in the city to join the rally.
BNP Convenor Moniruzzaman Farooq said: “The administration has asked us to set up the stage outside 200 feet. We think all this is to hinder our rally.”
BNP leader Fatema Tuz Zohra said that this is the first time such a record number of people are coming to Bangabandhu Udyan since independence.
