BNP to stage demo in Dhaka today

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage demonstration on Saturday at every thanas of Dhaka Metropolitan area in protest against denial by authorities to allow their scheduled rally in the capital on Friday to observe ‘democracy killing day’.

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office here on Friday.

He said: “It has been proved once again with the obstruction to BNP’s rally that Awami League is a party that kills democracy.” 

The government did not allow BNP to hold the rally as part of its scorched-earth policy to hush up the ‘controversial and stigmatised’ national election held on January 5, 2014, he added. 

Rizvi also alleged that law enforcers are obstructing their party’s black flag processions at different parts of the country, including Gazipur, Mymensingh, Khulna, and Chittagong.

Huge law enforcers have been deployed in and around BNP's Nayapaltan central office since morning to avoid any untoward incident.