Opposition leader Khaleda Zia has reached the venue of the 18-Party Alliance rally where she is expected to announce fresh anti-government agitation programme.
The BNP chief reached the rally venue in front of the BNP headquarters at Naya Paltan a few minutes after 4pm. Amid raucous applause she took the stage in a off-white saree, waiving at them.
On Mar 12, the former Prime Minister had given the government a 90-day ultimatum to restore caretaker government system, which expired on Sunday.
Khaleda had already had a meeting with her senior party advisors and leaders of the alliance where she is believed to have set fresh programmes.
The rally, being presided over by the BNP's Dhaka metropolitan unit Member Secretary Abdus Salam, kicked off around 2:30pm.
Jamaat-e-Islam's acting chief Maqbul Ahmed and Liberal Democratic Party President Oli Ahmed are sitting beside Khaleda. Other leaders of the 18-Party Alliance are also onstage.
Chief Whip of the Opposition in Parliament Zainul Abdin Farroque is moderating the rally.
The opposition is staging the rally while 30 of its top leaders are behind bars including BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
The BNP chief reached the rally venue in front of the BNP headquarters at Naya Paltan a few minutes after 4pm. Amid raucous applause she took the stage in a off-white saree, waiving at them.
On Mar 12, the former Prime Minister had given the government a 90-day ultimatum to restore caretaker government system, which expired on Sunday.
Khaleda had already had a meeting with her senior party advisors and leaders of the alliance where she is believed to have set fresh programmes.
The rally, being presided over by the BNP's Dhaka metropolitan unit Member Secretary Abdus Salam, kicked off around 2:30pm.
Jamaat-e-Islam's acting chief Maqbul Ahmed and Liberal Democratic Party President Oli Ahmed are sitting beside Khaleda. Other leaders of the 18-Party Alliance are also onstage.
Chief Whip of the Opposition in Parliament Zainul Abdin Farroque is moderating the rally.
The opposition is staging the rally while 30 of its top leaders are behind bars including BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
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