Khaleda to sit with senior leaders tonight

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened a meeting of her party’s senior leaders for tonight ahead of tomorrow’s programme protesting January 5 polls.

The meeting will take place at Khaleda’s Gulshan office at 9:30pm and will include BNP’s senior leaders, Sayrul Kabir Khan, a staff of BNP chief’s media wing, told The Daily Star.

The party has called for a rally in Dhaka tomorrow to mark the second anniversary of last general elections as “democracy killing day”. But, they are yet to get clearance from police.

Their rally stands against ruling Awami League who has also called for a rally at the same venue with the intention of celebrating the day as “democracy saving day”.

Last time these two rival parties called simultaneous rallies on the occasion of January 5 ended up in three months of violence and the death of over a hundred people last year.