BNP, allies to wage movement if govt raises gas, power prices
The BNP-led 20-party alliance will wage a tougher movement including non-stop hartal and blockade if the government increases power and gas prices in January next year.
The decision came at a meeting at the BNP chief's Gulshan residence last night.
The alliance decided to take up the public interest issue to kick off an anti-government movement and gradually turn it into a decisive campaign for an inclusive election under a non-party administration, meeting sources said.
At the meeting, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia made the alliance leaders promise that they would take to the street with her in that movement, a number of 20-party leaders who attended the meeting told The Daily Star on condition of anonymity.
“We all assured her that we will stay on the streets braving the bullets and repression,” one of them said.
Khaleda also told the leaders they would have to get ready for any kind of sacrifice.
Khaleda slammed the Jamaat representative at the meeting.
“You [Jamaat] talk much but act less. You enforced hartals but your people were not there on the streets. Everything was normal,” an Islamic party leader quoted Khaleda as saying.
Redwanullah Sahedi who represented Jamaat at the meeting kept mum at that time, meeting sources said.
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