BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has left Dhaka to begin her campaign in the northern part of the country.She will address public rallies in Rangpur and Rajshahi on Sunday and Monday respectively.
Her motorcade left her Gulshan residence on Saturday afternoon.
The leader of the opposition has announced as many as eight rallies across the nation to boost support for its ongoing campaign for the restoration of a non-party poll-time government.
The first of these rallies was held at Rangpur’s ‘Balur Math’ on Sept 8.
The BNP Chairperson will spend the Saturday night at the Bogra Circuit House and resume her journey to Rangpur at 11am on Sunday.
Her Sunday rally will be held at the Zila School Field in the evening.
From Rangpur, Khaleda will return to Bogra. She will spend the night there and proceed to Rajshahi the following morning where she will address a rally at a local Madrasa ground.
Meanwhile, Rangpur is busy preparing to host the BNP Chairperson after 17 long years, Rangpur correspondent reported.
A total of 11 sub-committees are working with leaders and activists from Rangpur division’s eight districts to ensure hundreds of thousands join the opposition chief’s rally.
Khaleda Zia’s last trip to Rangpur was in August of 1996. She was there to seek votes for a party candidate in a by-poll. -bdnews24.com
Khulna rally shifted to Sept 29: UNB adds: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s public rally scheduled to be held in Khulna on September 22 has been shifted to September 29. The rally has been rescheduled for bad condition of its venue, Khulna Circuit House ground, as it has gone under water, Khaleda’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan told UNB on Saturday. Meanwhile, Khaleda’s Barisal rally scheduled for September 29 has been postponed and the fresh date for the rally will be announced later, Sayrul said. As part of its movement strategy, the BNP-led 18-party chalked out a plan to hold rallies in the country’s eight regions, including Khulna and Barisal to increase people’s involvement in its ongoing anti-government campaign and force the government to restore now-abolished caretaker government system to oversee the national election. Earlier on September 8, Khaleda, also the leader of the opposition in parliament, addressed a mammoth rally in Narsingdi, the first out of the eight scheduled rallies. She is going to address two public rallies in Rangpur and Rajshahi on Sunday and Monday respectively. She left her Gulshan residence to the country’s northern region at 3:40pm on Saturday to address the rallies. The former premier will address public rallies in Sylhet on October 5 and in Dhaka and Chittagong after Eid-ul Azha. – UNB
