The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has denied the BNP permission to hold its rally on Thursday in Dhaka's Suhrawardy Udyan, or Nayapaltan.
"Although the BNP applied for Nayapaltan, allowing any political parties in public roads on a working day is not possible," Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Khandaker Golam Faruq told the media.
When asked about Suhrawardi Udyan, the DMP commissioner said there are some observations on holding political programmes. "We can't allow them at Suhrawardi Udyan on a working day either," he added.
The DMP suggested Golapbagh playground as a venue for BNP's rally tomorrow.
Earlier, BNP announced a grand rally in the capital on 27 July to press home their one-point demand for a non-partisan polls-time government.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary general of the party, announced on 22 July while addressing the party's youth rally in the capital.
Besides the BNP, 37 like-minded parties, including the Gonotontro Moncho, 12-party alliance, Nationalist Alliance, Gono Odhikar Porishod (Reza Kibria), LDP, Gono Forum, and Democratic Left Unity Alliance, have also decided to hold grand rallies in Dhaka on the same date separately.
