The Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies on Saturday announced a three-day agitation in protest at the price hike of agricultural inputs, gas, fuels, share market scam and rise in transport fares.
BNP and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam announced the programme at separate press briefings at their respective party offices.
At the BNP's press conference at Naya Paltan, the party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said their allies and other like-minded political parties, including Bangladesh Jatiya Party, Islami Oikya Jote, Jatiya Ganatantrik Party, National People's Party, Bangladesh NAP, Bangladesh Labour Party and NAP (Bhasani)] also announced similar programmes.
Mirza Fakhrul said rallies and processions will be held on June 21 and 28 in Dhaka city and elsewhere in the country to protest at the price hike of fertiliser and agricultural produces, fuel, gas and transport fares.
On June 23, he said, similar protests will be staged in the capital and the port city of Chittagong, over the share market scam 'that made some 33 lakh small investors paupers.'
The BNP, however, did not announce any fresh programme in protest at the government's move to scrap the caretaker government provision.
Mirza Fakhrul said the ball [caretaker government issue] was now in Awami League's court and that the opposition would decide its next course of action 'after the AL makes its stance clear [over the caretaker issue]'.
'The party chairperson Khaleda Zia has made our stand clear that we will not sit for any discussion unless the government announces that the caretaker provision will be retained,' he said.
When his attention was drawn to a statement of AL general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, The BNP leader said, 'Holding a one-sided election under its regime is the Awami League's ultimate goal, no matter what they say in public.'
About the signing of the Production Sharing Contract with US companyConocoPhillips to extract gas from the Bay of Bengal, Mirza Fakhrul said they were yet to go through the deals.
Demanding that the government should make public the entire PSC deal, Mirza Fakhurl said, 'BNP is always against the any anti-state deal.'
Asked whether the party would lend its support to the half-day hartal called for July 3 in Dhaka by the national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources and ports, he said, they would discuss the issue in the party forum.
In reply to a question, he said the party had postponed its plan for organising a 'long march' and Khaleda Zia's tour of districts for 'inclement weather' and also because of the ongoing elections to union parishads.
Jamaat acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam announced similar programmes at the party's Moghbazar central office.
Source: New Age
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