DHAKA: After staging programs like human chain, sit-in and hunger strike, BNP has announced countrywide new demonstration programs including mass signature campaign in demand of its party chairperson Khaleda Zia's release.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced to program plan at a press conference in party’s Naya Paltan central office on Thursday noon (February 15).

According to the announcement, BNP will hold a mass signature campaign across the country on Saturday (February 17) and will send memorandum to each Deputy Commissioner (DC) on Sunday (Feb 18). Finally the party will stage demonstration in district sadar and thana levels on Tuesday (Feb 20).

Prior to the announcement, Fakhrul said, “Country’s most popular leader Khaleda Zia is being kept at the 150 years old jail. The central prison was cleared up earlier and prisoners were shifted to Keraniganj’s new prison. A shopping mall and park were supposed to be made in place of the central jail but didn’t happen. Instead, Khaleda Zia is being locked in there. All of this is part of a bigger plot.”    

Mentioning that a deeper conspiracy is underway to keep BNP away from polls and make it a leaderless party, Fakhrul said the main objective of this plot is to establish one-party rule in country.

BNP senior leaders were also present at the press conference.

Earlier on Feb 8, BNP chairperson was sentenced to five years imprisonment in a graft case and sent to Dhaka central jail.

Protesting the verdict, BNP organized human chain on Feb 12, sit-in program on Feb 13 and three-hour long hunger strike on Feb 14.

BDST: 1430 HRS, FEB 15, 2018
AP