BNP factions separately welcome party chief
Magura BNP factions have taken up separate programmes to welcome party Chairperson Khaleda Zia on her way back to the capital from Khulna.
The BNP chief was yesterday leading a road march to Khulna. The programme will end with a public meeting at Khulna Circuit House maidan today.
Two factions of Magura BNP--one led by district unit president Kabir Murad and the other by former president of the unit Quazi Salimul Haque Kamal--have taken preparations to hold wayside rallies that are supposed to be addressed by the party chief reports our Magura correspondent.
Kabir Murad group has erected a dais at Magura bus terminal area while their rivals have selected venues for rallies at Bhaina, Dhaka road bus stand and Parnandulai Baparipara mosque area on Magura-Faridpur road.
Apart from arranging separate wayside meetings, both factions have also erecting arches at different points on Magura-Faridpur and Magura-Jessore highways to welcome the party chairperson today. They have hung portraits of the leaders of their respective groups on the arches.
The rival groups held preparatory meetings yesterday and the day before to make their programmes a success.
Our Pabna correspondent reported that a faction of BNP district unit yesterday staged a demonstration while the road march led by the party chairperson was passing through Roopur in Pakshey of Ishwardi upazila.
Aggrieved district BNP leaders and activists held the demonstration standing on both sides of a 6-km road from Roopur Natun Haat intersection to Pakshey Lalon Shah Bridge instead of joining chairperson's wayside rally at Dashuria in Ishwardi upazila at noon.
Former lawmaker Sirajul Islam Sardar, former organising secretary of the district unit Kamrul Hassan Mintu, Ishwardi municipality mayor Mokhlesur Rahman Bablu led the demonstration.
The agitated BNP men chanted slogans against Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas and demanded dissolution of the district committee.
At least 50 BNP leaders and activists were injured in a clash between two rival factions in Dashuria on Wednesday.
In Jhenidah, BNP Kaliganj unit has been divided into two groups over the road march that was due to reach there from Kushtia at around 9:00pm yesterday, according to our correspondent.
One faction led by former-Kaliganj municipality chairman Mahbubur Rahman erected a stage at Nimtala bus stand while the other led by former BNP lawmaker Shahidul Islam Beltu erected its dais in the same area.
On Friday, both the rival groups held separate rallies at Kaliganj Bazar to make their programmes a success.
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