The BNP-led 18-party alliance will go for a three-day Dhaka seize programme from Monday (Nov 4) to force the ruling Awami League to meet its demand for the next general election under a non-party caretaker (CG) oversight, sources said. As part of the programme, leaders and activists of the 18-party alliance will take a strong position at all entry and strategic points of the capital from November 4 which will be continued till November 6, the sources added.
The decision was taken at a meeting of BNP’s national standing committee, the highest policy making body of the party held at Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office at about 9: 40 pm.
The meeting sources said that the nationwide agitation rallies would be held on November 2 protesting the killing several of its party men during the 60-hour hartal that ended Tuesday. Anti-government programmes like hartal will come by turn for at least three or four days in every week so that the government is forced to accept the opposition’s CG restoration demand, the sources said.
While talking to The Independent, a standing committee member on condition of anonymity said that his party would form a strong resistance if the Election Commission announces poll schedule hurriedly to fulfil the government agenda.
BNP chairperson and Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia has termed the government efforts to hold talk with BNP a drama saying there was no chance for the opposition to reach a consensus over the poll-time administration, the sources told this reporter quoting Khaleda Zia as saying.
“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s dialogue proposal is now a dead issue for the opposition. We will have to remain on the streets as there is no alternative to it in front of us,” the sources quoted Khaleda Zia.
Khaleda Zia criticised her party senior leaders for their dysfunctional role during just ended 60-hour nationwide general strike programme and asked them not to do that again.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, its sanding committee member R A Ghani, Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain, Moudud Ahmed, Mahbubur Rahman, M K Anwar and others were present at the meeting with Khaleda Zia in the chair.
-With The Independent input
