The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has given 'verbal permission' allowing BNP to install a stage and hold Monday's rally in front of the party headquarters at Naya Paltan.
"Though belated, we have finally got verbal permission for Monday's rally and building the stage," the opposition Chief Whip in Parliament Zainul Abdin Farroque told reporters after a meeting with DMP Commissioner Benazir Ahmed on Sunday.
Farroque said the DMP Commissioner had assured them that a copy of the written permission would be sent to the BNP office within an hour.
BNP chief Khaleda Zia is expected to announce fresh agitation programmes from Monday's rally after a deadline for restoring the caretaker government system expired on Sunday.
"We sought police assistance to hold our rally peacefully," he said.
He vowed to make the rally a success.
A four-member BNP delegation, led by Farroque, joined the hour-long meeting at the DMP headquarters.
The other members of the delegation were BNP lawmakers Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee, Abul Khair Bhuiyan and Dhaka Metropolitan Unit Member Secretary Abdus Salam.
Farroque said they would begin installing the rally stage opposite to the BNP headquarters by Sunday noon.
On whether the rally permission had any conditions attached to it, he said, "We have been told anything like that."
"We also gave no condition."
The 18-Party Alliance rally is scheduled to commence at 2pm on Monday.
"Though belated, we have finally got verbal permission for Monday's rally and building the stage," the opposition Chief Whip in Parliament Zainul Abdin Farroque told reporters after a meeting with DMP Commissioner Benazir Ahmed on Sunday.
Farroque said the DMP Commissioner had assured them that a copy of the written permission would be sent to the BNP office within an hour.
BNP chief Khaleda Zia is expected to announce fresh agitation programmes from Monday's rally after a deadline for restoring the caretaker government system expired on Sunday.
"We sought police assistance to hold our rally peacefully," he said.
He vowed to make the rally a success.
A four-member BNP delegation, led by Farroque, joined the hour-long meeting at the DMP headquarters.
The other members of the delegation were BNP lawmakers Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee, Abul Khair Bhuiyan and Dhaka Metropolitan Unit Member Secretary Abdus Salam.
Farroque said they would begin installing the rally stage opposite to the BNP headquarters by Sunday noon.
On whether the rally permission had any conditions attached to it, he said, "We have been told anything like that."
"We also gave no condition."
The 18-Party Alliance rally is scheduled to commence at 2pm on Monday.
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