BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is scheduled to address a rally in Gazipur on Saturday afternoon. She will leave her Gulshan home at 2:30pm for the rally at Kapasia Chala Club ground, her Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan told bdnews24.com. The rally has been planned to gear up the opposition's campaign against the government. The BNP and its 17 other allies are out to strengthen its anti-government movement amid authorities' indifference to its demand for caretaker government. The opposition alliance also wants to rally support from the common people by protesting against the disappearance of M Ilias Ali and cases against opposition leaders and activists, saying the charges are false.
After a Mar 12 rally in Dhaka, this is going to be the first rally to be addressed by Khaleda. She had given the government a deadline of June 10 to meet the demand for restoring the caretaker government system. Khaleda had told the Mar 12 rally that fresh agitations would be announced if the demand is not met within the deadline.
The party, however, enforced five days of general strikes last month in protest against the disappearance of Ilias Ali, an organising secretary. A number of top BNP leaders have been sued in cases over violence during the strikes
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