The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday expected a overwhelming participation of people in its road march towards Sylhet and alleged that goons of the Awami League were instigating people into violence at places along the road march route.
The party's joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a briefing in its central office at Naya Paltan alleged that Awami League goons were instigating people into violence at places along the road march route towards Sylhet from Dhaka and said that an overwhelming participation of the people would stem all their evil attempts.
'Awami League leaders and activists are threatening people, trying to create a state of fear in different localities to keep the people away from the march but all their attempts will fail,' he said.
Despite accusing the ruling party of instigating violence, the acting BNP secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday wrote to the home ministry to ensure proper security for the road march convoy and the programme venues, party insiders said.
The BNP begins the road march on Monday to press home its demand for the reinstatement of the caretaker government system and holding the next election under an election commission neutral in a true sense.
The march will start from the party chief's office at Gulshan and the chairperson Khaleda Zia is scheduled to address at least six large rallies on the way at Tarabo of Rupganj, Itakhola of Narsinghdi, Bhairab of Kishoreganj, Kadda crossing of Brahmanbaria, Shayestaganj of Habiganj and Sherpur of Moulvibazar on Monday. She will conclude the march by holding a rally in the Aliya Madrassah ground in Sylhet town on Tuesday.
The BNP high command has asked its local units concerned to make necessary preparations to ensure huge turnout in the rallies and on both sides of the highway.
All steps have been taken to make the road march successful, Rizvi said, hoping that it will create a momentum for the ongoing anti-government movement.
He said that all the local units had made adequate preparations for the march and carried out successful campaigns.
Rizvi said that the BNP had made arrangements to webcast the road march live on www.bnplive.com so that the people abroad could see it.
In reply to a question on the impact of party infighting on different units in view of the march, Rizvi said that there was a competition of leadership in the BNP but there was no rivalry.
As for change of the venue of the concluding rally from Rajshahi to Chapainawabganj, he said that there had been a large rally in Rajshahi for which they would be holding the rally this time in a bordering district.
As for conflicts between Khaleda Rabbani and Naser Rahman in Moulvibazar, Rizvi claimed they both were working together and there was no conflict.
The leader of the opposition in the parliament announced the agitation programme, including road marches towards Sylhet, Rajshahi and Chittagong, at a 'grand' rally organised by the BNP-led alliance in Dhaka on September 27.
The party, later, postponed its Chittagong road march scheduled for October 25 –26 because of Hajj and Eid-ul-Azha.
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