BANGLADESH NEWS
Dhaka, May 17 BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will lead a mass hunger strike of the 18-party opposition alliance on Sunday.
The hunger strike is aimed at pressing for the release of top opposition leaders, party's standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan told journalists at Khaleda's Gulshan office late on Thursday night.
Even as Khan talked to the media, the BNP chief was holding a meeting with the leaders of the alliance constituents.
However, authorities are yet to respond to the opposition's application for a venue to hold the hunger strike, Khan said.
The opposition has requested the government to allow them to use one of the three places – the Institute of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB) premises, or any vacant place at Mahanagar Natya Mancha or Ramna Green – as the venue for protest programme.
"We are trying for a venue. If we do not get any place, we'll sit in front of the party's headquarters at Naya Paltan," he added.
Khan also said that the BNP-led alliance had announced to submit memoranda to deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahee officers across the country demanding reining in shooting prices of essential commodities on May 23 and hold protest rallies across the country on May 27 seeking restoration of the caretaker government system and withdrawal of cases against top opposition leaders.
Thursday's meeting followed a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike demanding release of top opposition leaders held in cases over violence during a shutdown on May 29.
The hunger strike is aimed at pressing for the release of top opposition leaders, party's standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan told journalists at Khaleda's Gulshan office late on Thursday night.
Even as Khan talked to the media, the BNP chief was holding a meeting with the leaders of the alliance constituents.
However, authorities are yet to respond to the opposition's application for a venue to hold the hunger strike, Khan said.
The opposition has requested the government to allow them to use one of the three places – the Institute of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB) premises, or any vacant place at Mahanagar Natya Mancha or Ramna Green – as the venue for protest programme.
"We are trying for a venue. If we do not get any place, we'll sit in front of the party's headquarters at Naya Paltan," he added.
Khan also said that the BNP-led alliance had announced to submit memoranda to deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahee officers across the country demanding reining in shooting prices of essential commodities on May 23 and hold protest rallies across the country on May 27 seeking restoration of the caretaker government system and withdrawal of cases against top opposition leaders.
Thursday's meeting followed a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike demanding release of top opposition leaders held in cases over violence during a shutdown on May 29.
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