The union-level march programme of BNP was observed in all the unions across the country to press home their 10-point demand, including holding the next general election under a non-party caretaker government.
The leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies alleged that the police and the Awami League activists obstructed them while holding the programme in different areas.
UNB correspondents in Narayanganj, Sirajganj, Natore, Bhola, Bogura Jamalpur, Gazipur, Barguna and Narsingdi reported that over 100 BNP leaders and activists were injured in clashes with police and AL men and as the party faced obstructions in different places.
Twelve motorbikes were vandalised and three others were torched during a clash between BNP and AL men in Sirajganj.
Besides, Ganatantra Mancha, Ganatantrik Bam Oikya, the 12-Party Alliance, Samamona Jote, LDP, Gonoforum, and People’s Party, also observed a similar programme in the different areas of the capital as part of their simultaneous movement.
Ganatantra Mancha observed the programme at the divisional and district levels.
BNP senior leaders said their programme was observed only at the union level as part of the party’s move to involve people from the grassroots in their ongoing anti-government movement.
On February 4, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the march programme at the union level from a rally in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office.
BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said the main goal of their march programme at all unions was to spread the ongoing movement at the grassroots level.
It was the fifth program of the simultaneous movement after the mass processions on December 24 and 30, sit-in on January 11 and rallies, processions on January 16 and rallies on January 25 and February 4.
