The leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate bodies brought out a procession with sticks in the capital on Friday morning demanding the government's resignation and cancellation of the ‘one-party’ election on Sunday (January 7).
They also called upon the country’s people to boycott the election and not to go to the polling stations on Sunday.
The BNP leaders and followers took out the procession, led by the party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, in the city’s Karwanbazar area.
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They chanted various slogans against what they said was an “unacceptable, farcical and dummy” election.
In a brief address after the procession, Rizvi said the government is trying to hold a unilateral election illegally by using the state machinery.
“The country’s people won't accept this illegal election arranged by looters. We urge the people, including the leaders and workers of the BNP and like-minded opposition parties, to boycott the dummy election,” he said.