Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN) – The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Friday threatened to launch a non-stop movement to force the government abandon the splitting of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) into two entities.
“Dhaka is the capital of independent Bangladesh and it has a place in citizens’ hearts. No conspiracy to bifurcate Dhaka will be tolerated,” BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.
He was addressing a rally organized by BNP Dhaka city unit in front of the party’s Naya Palatn central office as part of its three-day program, aiming to refrain the government from dividing the 400-year-old Dhaka city.
City BNP convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka presided over the rally.
Mr. Alamgir urged all to make tomorrow’s dawn-to-dusk general strike, generally known as hartal, in the city a success to protest the government’s move.
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Wednesday called a dawn-to-dusk general strike in the capital on Sunday to protest the split of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) into two parts.
The announcement came a day after the national parliament passed a law to split the DCC into DCC North and DCC South.
BBN/SSR/AD-03Dec11-12:35 am (BST)
