Information Minister Hasan Mahmud said Dhaka's streets will be under the control of the Awami League on October 28.
The Awami League leader made the remarks while talking to reporters at the Secretariat on Sunday.
When asked whether the Awami League was feeling pressure due to the BNP's rally, Hasan Mahmud said: “Whether it's a grand rally, a small rally, a medium-sized rally, a road march, a running program, a sit-in protest, or perhaps even a crawling program in the future, we do not feel pressured by the BNP’s rally.”
“We are the party of the streets, and we will remain active on the streets. On the 28th of October, the streets will be under the control of the Awami League,” he added.
Trashing the ruling party leaders’ comments and all speculations, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said their party has only a plan to hold a grand rally peacefully in Dhaka on October 28, not to sit on the streets.
“It’s (sitting on the streets) completely untrue and propaganda. We didn’t ask our leaders and workers to come to Dhaka and sit on the streets. Rather, we told them that after the program, everyone would go back to their respective places, and they would wait for the next program,” he said.
On October 18, the BNP initially announced their plans to hold a grand rally in the capital on October 28 as part of the final phase of their action program for their ongoing movement to topple the government.
