BNP on Tuesday announced a two-day demonstration program for Thursday and Saturday to protest over the continuous attacks on opposition leaders by ruling party “cadres” in different parts of the country including Comilla.
Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with the announcement at a press conference at BNP’s Naya Paltan central office.
As part of the programs, he said the party’s Dhaka South and North city units will stage a demonstration in the capital on Thursday.
Besides, Fakhrul said their party’s all-district units will stage demonstrations across the country on Saturday.
He alleged that “Awami League cadres” have created a reign of terror across the country by attacking senior BNP leaders and other opposition leaders.
The BNP leader said the ruling party activists attacked their party standing committee member and former minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in Comilla's Daudkani on Saturday, but later a false case was filed against BNP leaders and activists.
He said the ruling party cadres also attacked Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Leader Dr Redwan Ahmed in Chandina upazila of Comilla on Monday.
Fakhrul said Awami League “cadres” also attacked earlier BNP leaders in different areas, including in Feni, Satkhira, Narayanganj, and Patuakhali. “So, we have taken a two-day program in protest against these terrorist attacks.”
Earlier, the programs were finalized at a joint meeting of BNP and its associate bodies at the party’s Naya Paltan central office with Mirza Fakhrul in the chair.
