The ruling Awami League and BNP have got conditional permission from Dhaka Metropolitan Police to hold rallies on January 5.
DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah said both the parties will have to hold rallies in front of their offices, Awami League in front of Bangabandhu Avenue while the BNP in front of their party's Nayapaltan Headquarters.
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He said the parties would have to keep free one lane in front of their offices during the rallies.
The arch rivals -- Awami League and BNP -- declared the programmes to celebrate and condemn the hotly-debated January 5, 2014 general elections.
Both the parties sought permission from the DMP on Saturday. Later the BNP proposed an alternative venue – in front of its Nayapaltan Headquarters, while the Awami League said that they would hold the main event on Bangabandhu Avenue and 17 other spots of the capital.
Last year, the BNP could not hold the scheduled rally at Suhrawardy Udyan as its Chairperson Khaleda Zia had allegedly been “barred” from leaving her Gulshan office to attend the event to mark “Democracy Killing Day.” In protest, she announced countrywide indefinite blockade which claimed more than 100 lives in three months.
On January 5, 2014, the BNP boycotted the national parliamentary elections, refusing to take part in an election under the then incumbent Awami League government and restoration of the caretaker government system.
