BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami will stage countrywide demonstration on Saturday in protest against abolishing the caretaker government system and deleting the phrase "absolute trust and faith in Allah" from the constitution.
Both the parties announced the programme yesterday from separate press briefings at their party headquarters.
Announcing the BNP programme, party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said his party will also bring out processions in the capital.
BNP sources said party Chairperson Khaleda Zia may lead the procession.
Jamaat acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam said they will hold protest rallies only in the capital.
Briefing reporters at Nayapaltan office, BNP acting secretary general alleged the government has taken a stance against people's faith by unilaterally amending the charter. "The right to speak has been taken away. The government is now threatening to lodge sedition cases against the opposition," he said.
Earlier on Saturday night, the top brass of the four-party alliance at a meeting at Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office finalised the protest programmes as part of the ongoing anti-government movement.
BNP will also protest the arrest warrant against BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, the police attack on Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque and reinstatement of secularism and socialism in the constitution.
Source : The Daily Star
