The BNP has announced countrywide rallies and processions for January 16 to press home its 10-point demand and protest the government's plan to hike power prices.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programs at the party's sit-in at Naya Paltan in the capital on Wednesday.
He said the programs will be observed in all metropolitan cities, districts towns, upazilas and municipality headquarters.
The BNP and other like-minded opposition parties, alliances and organizations arranged a sit-in in the capital and other divisions in the county as part of their simultaneous movement against the current government.
The program began at 10am and ended at 2pm with the speech of Fakhrul.
The BNP arranged the four-hour program to press home its 10-point demand, including holding the next general election under a neutral government.
It is the second program of the simultaneous movement after the mass procession of the 33 opposition parties on December 30.
BNP leaders said the program had been worked out for January 11 keeping in mind the political changeover that had taken place on that day in 2007 – an episode popularly known as “1/11” in the country.
Earlier, on December 30, the BNP and 32 other like-minded opposition parties held a mass procession in different parts of the capital and Rangpur city as the first program of the simultaneous movement.
