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Dhaka, Feb 29 Opposition BNP on Wednesday warned that it would go ahead with a one-point demand to unseat the government if the opposition's grand rally in Dhaka on Mar 12 is obstructed.
"The one-point demand to bring down the government will start from the location our peaceful programme is obstructed," party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a meeting with the leaders and activists of the party's Shahbagh Thana unit at BNP's Naya Paltan headquarters.
He also sought permission from the authorities concerned to hold the Mar 12 rally at Paltan Maidan or Manik Mia Avenue or in front of its Naya Paltan office.
The party last week appealed to the authorities to give permission for any of the venues, but did not get any response.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia from a Chittagong rally on Jan 9 announced the Mar 12 rally to mount pressure on the government to restore the caretaker government system.
Fakhrul on Wednesday also urged all the party leaders and activists to make the Mar 12 rally a success.
About the preparation of the grand rally, he said, "There would be a mass upsurge on the rally day. The people's demand for a non-party caretaker government will be breathed life into at the rally," he added.
Regarding prime minister's remarks that Khaleda had gone out of her residence in a car with black-tinted glasses on the day of bloody BDR mutiny and then went into hiding for the next three days, Fakhrul said the prime minister made false statement regarding the BNP chief.
The BNP acting secretary general alleged that the countrymen were annoyed with the prime minister's frequent false remarks.
He also claimed that Hasina was captured by BDR personnel at Akhaura border while trying to flee to India following the assassination of president Ziaur Rahman on May 30, 1982.
BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed, also coordinator of Dhaka district for the Mar 12 rally, said they would continue their movement until their demand for restoration of the caretaker government provision is met.
"The government must address people's demand," he said and added that no administration could discharge duties with neutrality under a party government and the elections would not be fair.
"That's why we want a non-party caretaker government," he stressed.
Parliament on June 30 last year passed the 15th Constitution Amendment Bill, scrapping the caretaker government provision.
Since then, BNP has been demanding restoration of the 15-year-old constitutional provision that mandates an elected government to transfer power, on completion of its term, to an unelected non-party caretaker administration to oversee a new parliamentary election.
The Supreme Court on May 10 declared the caretaker government system illegal, but said it could be retained for the next two general elections for the sake of "safety of the state and its people".
"The one-point demand to bring down the government will start from the location our peaceful programme is obstructed," party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a meeting with the leaders and activists of the party's Shahbagh Thana unit at BNP's Naya Paltan headquarters.
He also sought permission from the authorities concerned to hold the Mar 12 rally at Paltan Maidan or Manik Mia Avenue or in front of its Naya Paltan office.
The party last week appealed to the authorities to give permission for any of the venues, but did not get any response.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia from a Chittagong rally on Jan 9 announced the Mar 12 rally to mount pressure on the government to restore the caretaker government system.
Fakhrul on Wednesday also urged all the party leaders and activists to make the Mar 12 rally a success.
About the preparation of the grand rally, he said, "There would be a mass upsurge on the rally day. The people's demand for a non-party caretaker government will be breathed life into at the rally," he added.
Regarding prime minister's remarks that Khaleda had gone out of her residence in a car with black-tinted glasses on the day of bloody BDR mutiny and then went into hiding for the next three days, Fakhrul said the prime minister made false statement regarding the BNP chief.
The BNP acting secretary general alleged that the countrymen were annoyed with the prime minister's frequent false remarks.
He also claimed that Hasina was captured by BDR personnel at Akhaura border while trying to flee to India following the assassination of president Ziaur Rahman on May 30, 1982.
BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed, also coordinator of Dhaka district for the Mar 12 rally, said they would continue their movement until their demand for restoration of the caretaker government provision is met.
"The government must address people's demand," he said and added that no administration could discharge duties with neutrality under a party government and the elections would not be fair.
"That's why we want a non-party caretaker government," he stressed.
Parliament on June 30 last year passed the 15th Constitution Amendment Bill, scrapping the caretaker government provision.
Since then, BNP has been demanding restoration of the 15-year-old constitutional provision that mandates an elected government to transfer power, on completion of its term, to an unelected non-party caretaker administration to oversee a new parliamentary election.
The Supreme Court on May 10 declared the caretaker government system illegal, but said it could be retained for the next two general elections for the sake of "safety of the state and its people".
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