BNP’s union-level march starts across country

The leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies have started march in all the unions across the country to press home their 10-point demand, especially to hold the next general election under a non-party caretaker government.

Besides, Ganatantra Mancha, Ganatantrik Bam Oikya, the 12-party alliance, Samamona Jote, LDP, Gonoforum, and People's Party, are observing a similar programmes in different areas of the capital as part of their simultaneous movement.

Ganatantra Mancha is observing the programme at divisional and district levels.

BNP senior leaders said their programme will be observed only at the union level as part of the party's move to involve people from the grassroots in their ongoing anti-government movement.

On February 4, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the march programme at the union level from a rally in front of the party's Nayapaltan central office.

Talking to UNB on Friday, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said the main goal of their march is to spread the ongoing movement at the grassroots level.

It was the fifth programme of the simultaneous movement after the mass processions on December 24 and 30, sit-in on January 11 and rallies, processions on January 16 and rallies on January 25 and February 4.