BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said that on January 16, BNP will stage protests and rallies across the country to meet their 10-point demand, including reducing electricity prices.
He made the statement at a press conference at the BNP chairperson's office in Gulshan.
Fakhrul said the programs will be observed in all metropolitan cities, districts towns, upazilas and municipality headquarters.
On Wednesday, the BNP arranged a four-hour sit-in program to press home its demand, including holding the next general election under a neutral government.
It was 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.
