Take to street with sacrificing mentality to free Khaleda: BNP
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today called upon his party men to take to the street with a sacrificing mentality to free party’s Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail and to restore democracy in the country.
Fakhrul, in a brief speech, made the call before bringing out a procession from BNP’s Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka this afternoon marking its 41st founding anniversary.
Bringing allegation against Awami League that it wants to restore one-party rule again in the country, Fakhrul said the ruling quarter wants to hang on to power through confining Khaleda Zia in jail and implicating thousands of BNP leaders and activists with false cases.
“Will we return back to the path of Bakshal. It is not so easy. We will never accept this,” Fakhrul said.
After the speech, BNP leaders and activists brought out a colorful procession holding party flag, placards, festoons and banners.
They joined the rally, heading towards Shantinagar from Nayapaltan with horse-carts, small trucks and band parties, led by their central leaders amid huge presence of law enforcers.
Hundreds of leaders and activists of the party and its associate bodies chanted various slogans seeking their party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s immediate release from jail.
The rally ended at Nayapaltan around 5:00pm after marching on Kakrail and Shantinagar roads, creating huge traffic jam in Fakirapool, Kakrail, Shantinagr and Malibagh areas.
"If we want to free our party’s Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail, ensure homecoming of Tarique Rahman and restore democracy in the country, we will have to sacrifice a lot and be vocal on the streets against the current autocratic and fascist regime,” he said.
He said the government will not be able to prolong its tenure with repressive acts as no autocratic regime could do it in the past.
“We must awake people and BNP has to play the main role for this," the BNP leader said.
BNP standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, its vice-chairmen Abdullah Al Noman, Barkatullah Bulu, Mohammad Shahjahan, Abdul Awal Mintoo, AZM Zahid Hossain and Ahmed Azam Khan, among others, addressed the rally.
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