BNP announces grand rally in Dhaka on October 28

Desk News :: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday announced to hold a grand rally in Dhaka on October 28.

The party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the fresh programme to press home their demands for resignation of the government, dissolving the parliament, holding the next general election under a neutral government and sending the party chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for treatment.

The BNP leader was addressing a rally organised by BNP in front of its central office at Naya Paltan in Dhaka.

Fakhrul said that the fresh protest programmes would be held simultaneously with other opposition political parties.

He said that the next final protest programme would be be announced from the October 28 grand rally in Dhaka.

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Thousands of leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate organisations joined the rally that started at about 2:00pm with the recitation of the Qur’an.

Senior BNP leaders addressed the rally.