Opposition BNP to launch month-long protest programmes on power, water and gas crisis

M.A Qader-Our Correspondent in Bangladesh

Dhaka, 05 May (Asiantribune.com): The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will launch on Tuesday a series of scheduled programmes to protest power, water, and gas crises and 'worsening security' in the country.

On April 23, Secretary-general Khandaker Delwar Hossain declared the programmes at BNP chairperson's Gulshan office, which will run from May 5 through to June 2, he added.

Party activists will hold processions and rallies in Upazila, districts and, metropolises to put pressure on the government to press the issues.

In a press release issued Monday the party said it will take out a procession from its central office today at Naya Paltan in the city and urged supporters to join it.

Delwar had said they had been offering the government advice, recommendations and cooperation on a number of issues and subjects over the past months.

But the government maligned and slandered their leaders and workers, he alleged.

The secretary general had said BNP could not remain silent about the sufferings the people were going through.

On May 14, countrywide rallies and processions will protest the 'deteriorating law and order'.

All metropolises, districts and Upazilas would mark May 19 to demand an end to the 'atrocities being committed at educational institutions and politicisation everywhere'.

Rallies and processions would march the streets on May 24 demanding reduced manure and diesel prices, cut in commodity prices, right prices for the farm produces and protection of export-focus industries due to recession.

June 2 processions and rallies again would protest 'worsening security and growing incidents of murder, robbery, extortion and harassment'.

-Asian Tribune-