BNP, allies to hold countrywide demonstration May 6
Dhaka, May 2 (UNB) - The BNP-led 18-party alliance on Wednesday announced another countrywide demonstration on May 6 demanding the return of M Ilias Ali and his car driver in good health to their families.
The demonstration will also press for the withdrawal of ‘false’ cases against BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other leaders of 18-party alliance and also the release of arrested BNP leaders, including Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. It will also demand a halt to enforced disappearances, killings and repression.
BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on behalf of the alliance announced the programme from a demonstration held in front of the BNP central office at Nayapaltan today.
The day’s protest programme was organised by the Dhaka city unit of 18-party alliance as part of the countrywide demonstration demanding return of Ilias and withdrawal of cases against opposition leaders, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
On May 6, rallies will be held and processions will be brought out at thana level across the country, including in Dhaka City.
Moudud said tougher programmes will be given on May 6. If necessary, a progarmme tougher than hartal will be given, he told the vibrant protest rally.
He alleged that Ilias has been made a victim of enforced disappearance by the government’s agents to hush up the Railways Minister’s “cash scandal”.
Moudud, a former Law Minister, said the government will have to resign if Ilias is not returned.
He said the government has become scared of the current anti-government agitation and thought that the opposition’s movement would be weakened by filing cases against the opposition leaders, including BNP actuing secretary general Mirza Fakhrul.
“The movement can't be prevented by filing cases, rather it would intensify,” he said.
The 18-party leaders at the demonstrations urged the Prime Minister to arrange return of “missing” Ilias Ali to his family to prevent the fall of the government.
Addressing the demonstration, BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia said the BNP men did not set fire to the bus in front of the Prime Minister’s office during hartal on April 29. He alleged that someone close to the Prime Minister from her office set fire to the bus.
Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia blamed the Home Ministry for bomb explosion inside the Bangladesh Secretariat.
Chaired by Dhaka city BNP joint convenor MA Qaiyum, the protest rally was also addressed, among others, by BNP leaders Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan, Abdullah Al Noman, Shamsuzzman Dudu, M Shahjahan and Shirin Sultana, Jamat-e-Islami leaders Mia Golam Parwar and Hamidur Rahman Azad, IOJ secretary general Abdul Latif Nezami, and BJP secretary general Shamim Al Mamun,
The demonstration will also press for the withdrawal of ‘false’ cases against BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other leaders of 18-party alliance and also the release of arrested BNP leaders, including Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. It will also demand a halt to enforced disappearances, killings and repression.
BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on behalf of the alliance announced the programme from a demonstration held in front of the BNP central office at Nayapaltan today.
The day’s protest programme was organised by the Dhaka city unit of 18-party alliance as part of the countrywide demonstration demanding return of Ilias and withdrawal of cases against opposition leaders, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
On May 6, rallies will be held and processions will be brought out at thana level across the country, including in Dhaka City.
Moudud said tougher programmes will be given on May 6. If necessary, a progarmme tougher than hartal will be given, he told the vibrant protest rally.
He alleged that Ilias has been made a victim of enforced disappearance by the government’s agents to hush up the Railways Minister’s “cash scandal”.
Moudud, a former Law Minister, said the government will have to resign if Ilias is not returned.
He said the government has become scared of the current anti-government agitation and thought that the opposition’s movement would be weakened by filing cases against the opposition leaders, including BNP actuing secretary general Mirza Fakhrul.
“The movement can't be prevented by filing cases, rather it would intensify,” he said.
The 18-party leaders at the demonstrations urged the Prime Minister to arrange return of “missing” Ilias Ali to his family to prevent the fall of the government.
Addressing the demonstration, BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia said the BNP men did not set fire to the bus in front of the Prime Minister’s office during hartal on April 29. He alleged that someone close to the Prime Minister from her office set fire to the bus.
Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia blamed the Home Ministry for bomb explosion inside the Bangladesh Secretariat.
Chaired by Dhaka city BNP joint convenor MA Qaiyum, the protest rally was also addressed, among others, by BNP leaders Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan, Abdullah Al Noman, Shamsuzzman Dudu, M Shahjahan and Shirin Sultana, Jamat-e-Islami leaders Mia Golam Parwar and Hamidur Rahman Azad, IOJ secretary general Abdul Latif Nezami, and BJP secretary general Shamim Al Mamun,
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