The leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies in their thousands have started streaming into historic Suhrawardy Udyan to join a “youth rally’ to press home their demand to hold the next election under a neutral government, reports UNB.
Ahead of the rally, scheduled to start at 2pm, youth leaders and activists from various parts of Dhaka wearing different coloured caps, have been gathering at the venue in processions since Saturday morning.
Carrying banners, festoons, placards and portraits of the party’s top leaders, they are shouting anti-government slogans as they converged on Suhrawardy Udyan before the start of the rally under the scorching sun.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will address the programme as the chief guest and give the youth various directions to intensify the ongoing one-point movement.
Three BNP associate bodies--Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, Chhatra Dal, and Swechchasebak Dal--have arranged the rally with their main objective to involve the young generation in the street movement for establishing their rights.
At a press conference on Friday, Jubo Dal president Sultan Salahuddin Tuku said the youth who are deprived of their rights would participate in the youth rally and hoped that Dhaka would become a city of youth on Saturday.
He said they have taken to the streets in favour of more than 4.70 crore new voters who were deprived of their right to the franchise by the current fascist regime and in favour of the youths who are not given government jobs for not being involved with the ruling party’s politics.
Tuku said they already held five youth rallies and got a huge response from the young people.
On June 2, three BNP associate bodies announced six youth rallies in Chattogram, Bogura, Khulna, Barishal, Sylhet, and Dhaka to drum up the young generation’s support for the ongoing movement demanding holding the next polls under a caretaker government.
Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan
