Being denied government permission, the BNP-led 18-party alliance moved its Monday’s Nayaplatan rally to Wednesday. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Shamsuzzaman Dudu told a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the morning that the rally will be held on Wednesday at the same venue at 3.00pm. Today’s rally was scheduled to be held at 2.00pm to press home its demand for restoration of the caretaker government system, registering the opposition’s protest for rejecting BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s 48-hour ultimatum for caretaker government system and May 5 crackdown on Hefajat activists at Shapla Chattar, and pressurising the “failed regime” to quit.
On Thursday night, BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed announced the programme at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office after a meeting of the party’s policymakers.
-With The Independent input
