The BNP has called a daylong general strike in the capital to protest the bifurcation of the Dhaka City Corporation.
The party will seek to enforce the hartal on Dec 4 as part of other programmes, acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters Wednesday evening.
Fakhrul emerged at 9:25pm from a meeting of the party's policymaking standing committee to announce the decision to waiting journalists at the Gulshan offices of the chairperson.
The other programmes include protest rally in front of the party headquarters at Naya Paltan on Friday and rallies in every Thana of the capital on Saturday.
Parliament passed a bill to split DCC on Tuesday even as BNP protested the move on the streets.
The government has 'struck people's heart' by taking the 'autocratic' and 'undemocratic' decision to split Dhaka, Fakrul said.
The party's Dhaka city unit chief Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who served as the mayor for nine years, attended the meeting on special invitation.
Standing committee members R A Gani, Moudud Ahmed, M K Anwar, Jamiruddin Sircar, A S M Hannan Shah, Rafiqul Islam Mia, Abdul Main Khan, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and Mirza Abbas were present at the meeting.
Following a petition filed by Khoka earlier in the day, the High Court asked the government why the bill should not be declared void.
The party will seek to enforce the hartal on Dec 4 as part of other programmes, acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters Wednesday evening.
Fakhrul emerged at 9:25pm from a meeting of the party's policymaking standing committee to announce the decision to waiting journalists at the Gulshan offices of the chairperson.
The other programmes include protest rally in front of the party headquarters at Naya Paltan on Friday and rallies in every Thana of the capital on Saturday.
Parliament passed a bill to split DCC on Tuesday even as BNP protested the move on the streets.
The government has 'struck people's heart' by taking the 'autocratic' and 'undemocratic' decision to split Dhaka, Fakrul said.
The party's Dhaka city unit chief Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who served as the mayor for nine years, attended the meeting on special invitation.
Standing committee members R A Gani, Moudud Ahmed, M K Anwar, Jamiruddin Sircar, A S M Hannan Shah, Rafiqul Islam Mia, Abdul Main Khan, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and Mirza Abbas were present at the meeting.
Following a petition filed by Khoka earlier in the day, the High Court asked the government why the bill should not be declared void.
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