Dhaka Metropolitan Police has given both Awami League's three associate bodies and BNP permission to hold their rallies at the capital's south plaza of Baitul Mukarram and Nayapaltan respectively tomorrow.
Both parties were given the permission on 23 conditions, DMP Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq told reporters at the DMP media centre this afternoon.
The conditions include: confining the rallies to the designated spaces, not gathering people on the streets or sidewalks outside of the approved places, concluding the rallies within the allotted time, not giving anti-state or provocative speeches and not carrying sticks or rods in the name of carrying banners or festoons.
Replying to a query, the DMP chief said there was no information of a big threat centring the two programmes. But as the two major parties are holding rallies, any vested quarter can cause a deterioration of law and order taking advantage of the programmes.
So, police will be on high alert with adequate forces deployed, he said.
He also thanked both parties for not holding the rallies on a working day.
BNP and the ruling Awami League's three associate bodies -- Jubo League, Swechchhasebak League and Chhatra League -- had originally planned to hold their rallies today.
The BNP rescheduled its grand rally on Friday in front of BNP headquarters in Nayapaltan after the DMP earlier denied the party permission to hold the rally on Thursday, a working day, on the street.
The city police also refused the Awami League's associate and front organisations permission for their rally at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram citing the same reasons given to the BNP.
