Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Saturday said that despite a lot of campaigning for three months, BNP’s Chattogram rally was actually a "flop" programme.

“Chattogram’s traditional wrestling competition ‘Jabbar-er Boli Khela’ draws bigger crowd than the recently held BNP rally in the port city,” he said.

The minister came up with the remarks while talking to local journalists on Saturday at Chattogram Circuit House after a meeting with local Awami League leaders and members of the parliament.

Awami League will hold rallies and marches in every upazila and unions of Chattogram next month and a district rally in the city later, he said.

The BNP leaders made a lot of offensive comments in the rally they held in the port city on Wednesday, he alleged.

“At that rally they gathered terrorists from different parts of Chattogram and chalked out a plan to create anarchy across the country, including in the port city. In that context we have met today to review the political situation and discuss our course of action,” said Hasan.

They had claimed 15 lakh people would join their mass rally but in reality they couldn’t even fill up one third of the Polo Ground even after bringing people from Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf, he said.

Replying to a journalist’s question he said, BNP has been continuing the movement to oust the government for the last 14 years.

Through this movement, they have become more detached from the people of the country as the Awami League has been elected to form government three times amid their movement, he added.