Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP- on Sunday announced a three-day mass contact and leaflet distribution program across the country between December 26 and December 28 to press home of its demand
of boycotting January 7 national polls.
BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi came up with the announcement at a virtual press conference.
“A mass contact and leaflet distribution programme will be observed across the country for three days on December 26, 27 and 28. I announce this programme in favour (our call for) boycotting the election and continuing the non-cooperation movement,” Rizvi said.
BNP’s like-minded parties also announced a similar programme three hours before the end of their nationwide road, rail and waterway blockade across the country.
The opposition enforced a daylong road-rail-waterways blockade at 6m today (Sunday) to protest the schedule for the next national election announced by the Election Commission (EC).
It was the 12th such blockade programme called by the opposition parties since October 31, and the first since the announcement of BNP’s non-cooperation movement against the government on December 20.
BNP along with nearly three dozen opposition political parties have been carrying out a simultaneous movement since December 10 last year to force the current government to quit and hold the 12th parliamentary election under a non-party neutral administration.
BNP’s movement lost its momentum following clashes with law enforcers centring the party’s grand rally on October 28 as many senior leaders, including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, were arrested while many others went into hiding in the face of a crackdown by the law enforcers.
Meanwhile, BNP Senior Joint General Secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in the virtual press briefing that the result of the next election already has been prepared which will be declared on January 7 by the election commission.
Besides, Rizvi led a demonstration in Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Cumilla on Sunday. The BNP leader said in the gathering that the government is plundering money in the name of election which they have looted from the people.
Rizvi along with the party leaders and activists brought out the demonstration on support of the ongoing blockade programme.
Meanwhile, the main opposition party-BNP- has demanded a stricter security for former Prime Minister and the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia who is now undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital city.
BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the demand in a statement sent to the media on Sunday, a day after a youth tried to enter Khaleda Zia’s cabin in the hospital.
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi expressed grave concern over the attempt of the unidentified youth to enter the cabin of Khaleda Zia.
“The attempt of an unknown and suspicious youth to enter the cabin of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia was a matter of grave concern.
The country’s people are surprised to know about such weak security measures for the three-time former Prime Minister even though she has been seriously ill for a long time,” the BNP leader said.
Rizvi questioned that how an unidentified man tried to enter the cabin by breaching the security cordon of such a popular leader.
The BNP leader said that the incident was mysterious and had created deep confusion in the minds of the people.
“People are puzzled now that whether it is a part of deep conspiracy or not,” he said.