BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will lead a mass hunger strike of the 18-party opposition alliance on Sunday at the capital's Mahanagar Natya Mancha in Gulistan.
BNP Standing Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday confirmed the hunger strike at a rally held in front of the party's Naya Paltan headquarters.
Earlier in the day, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Motijheel zone Deputy Commissioner Anwar Hossain told that the opposition was given the approval to hold the protest programme at the Natya Mancha.
The main opposition had 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.
Nazrul at the rally said, "We will protest the government's repression through this peaceful mass hunger strike. Our leader Khaleda Zia will be with us there."
The hunger strike would he held from 10am to 4pm. BNP last staged any similar programme on July 13 last year at the Institution of Engineers premises.
The decision to stage the hunger strike was taken at an 18-party opposition alliance meeting at Khaleda's Gulshan office on Thursday night following a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike that day demanding release of top opposition leaders held in cases over violence during a shutdown on May 29.
The programme has also been called demanding withdrawal of cases against top opposition leaders, election under a non-party and neutral government and return of missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali.
Protesting a trial court verdict to jail 33 senior leaders of the opposition alliance on Wednesday in connection with an Apr 29 arson case, the opposition had enforced Thursday's general strike.
BNP Standing Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday confirmed the hunger strike at a rally held in front of the party's Naya Paltan headquarters.
Earlier in the day, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Motijheel zone Deputy Commissioner Anwar Hossain told that the opposition was given the approval to hold the protest programme at the Natya Mancha.
The main opposition had 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.
Nazrul at the rally said, "We will protest the government's repression through this peaceful mass hunger strike. Our leader Khaleda Zia will be with us there."
The hunger strike would he held from 10am to 4pm. BNP last staged any similar programme on July 13 last year at the Institution of Engineers premises.
The decision to stage the hunger strike was taken at an 18-party opposition alliance meeting at Khaleda's Gulshan office on Thursday night following a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike that day demanding release of top opposition leaders held in cases over violence during a shutdown on May 29.
The programme has also been called demanding withdrawal of cases against top opposition leaders, election under a non-party and neutral government and return of missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali.
Protesting a trial court verdict to jail 33 senior leaders of the opposition alliance on Wednesday in connection with an Apr 29 arson case, the opposition had enforced Thursday's general strike.
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