Bangladesh Nationalist Party decided to register protests on December 21 across the country against border killings.
It voiced deep concern over the recent killings of Bangladeshis by Indian Border Security Force.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme at a press conference at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Monday.
He said black flags would be hoisted at all the party offices across the country on December 21, while leaders and activists would wear black badges or black dresses on the day.
Fakhrul said their party’s standing committee worked out the programme in protest against the indiscriminate killings of Bangladeshis along the border.
He said their standing committee was deeply worried over the killing of Bangladeshis by BSF recently in Thakurgaon and other border districts.
The BNP leader said their party thinks the border killing has long been going on unabated due to the current ‘unelected’ government’s subservient policy.
At their virtual meeting on December 12, he said the BNP standing committee also strongly condemned the ‘vote robbery’ in the elections to different municipalities and union parishads on December 10
They expressed deep shock over the deaths of party leaders, including Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf, former secretary Shahidul Alam, Daily Sangbad acting editor Khandaker Muniruzzaman and other businessmen, political leaders and activists after being infected with Coronavirus.
The BNP policymakers prayed for the salvation of the departed souls and conveyed their sympathy to the bereaved family members.
Apart from Fakhrul, party standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Moudud Ahmed, Jamiruddin Sircar, Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, Selima Rahman and Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku were present at the virtual meeting with its acting chairman Tarique Rahman in the chair.
