The BNP and like-minded parties are set to bring out mass processions in the capital on Friday to mount pressure on the government to quit and hold the next election under a non-party caretaker government.

The opposition parties will hold the programme as part of their ongoing one-point simultaneous movement.

As part of the programme, BNP’s Dhaka south and north city units and other parties and alliances will separately take out mass processions in the city after Juma prayers.

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Dhaka north city unit BNP will bring out a procession from Badda’s Suvastu Tower area toward Malibagh Abul Hotel around 3pm. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will inaugurate the programme.

Dhaka south city unit BNP will take out a procession from the Kamalapur Stadium area toward Malibagh Rail Gate at the same time. Party standing committee member Mirza Abbas will inaugurate the procession.   

 Dhaka north city unit BNP convener Amanullah Aman and south city unit convener Abdus Salam said they have taken all-out-preparations to hold their processions in a peaceful manner with the participation of thousands of leaders and activists of the party and its associate bodies.

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Apart from BNP, Ganotantra Mancha, Jatiyatabadi Samamona Jote, Gonoforum and People’s Party, Peshajibi Ganatantrik Jote, 12-party alliance, Labour Party, LDP, NDM and two factions of Gono Odhikar Parishad will also observe the programme separately in different areas of the capital.

This will be the third programme of the opposition's one-point movement with the goal to remove Awami League from power.

On July 12 last, BNP and the like-minded parties announced their one-point movement to realise their demands.

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Their demands include the resignation of the current “fascist, authoritarian,  people's vote looter and illegal” Awami League government, dissolution of the existing parliament, formation of the polls-time impartial government and reconstitution of the Election Commission for arranging a free, fair and inclusive election, the release of all political prisoners, including BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, withdrawal of all falls and ghost cases, including those against Tarique Rahman, and annulment of all false convictions.

In December last year, BNP and like-minded parties and alliances started a simultaneous movement based on their common objective of ousting the present government to pave the way for holding the next election under a non-party neutral government.