National Citizen Party (NCP) will observe a week-long mass outreach programme in Dhaka starting 23 October to protest against the law-and-order situation, rising fuel prices, soaring prices of essential commodities, public safety concerns, recruitment corruption, and graft.
The party will also hold a protest programme at Shahbagh in the capital on 30 October over the same demands. These decisions were taken at a meeting of NCP political board on Sunday evening, according to a press release issued by the party’s media cell.
The meeting was presided over by Nahid Islam, convener of NCP and opposition chief whip, and conducted by Akhter Hossain, member secretary.
Political board members Hasnat Abdullah, Sarjis Alam, Nasiruddin Patwary, Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan, Abdullah Al Alamin, Arif Islam Adeeb, Sarwar Tushar, Nusrat Tabassum, Ali Ahsan Junaid, and Saleh Uddin Sifat attended the meeting.
According to the release, the week-long programme beginning on 23 October will be observed at various locations in Dhaka. The convener, Nahid Islam, will inaugurate the programme, in which top leaders of the party will also take part. Subsequently, the protest programme at Shahbagh on 30 October will be organised by the Dhaka City North and South units of NCP.
The meeting also decided to deploy leaders of the party and its associate and affiliate organisations at various puja mandaps in Dhaka and across the country to ensure security and maintain communal harmony during the upcoming Durga Puja.
Additionally, top leaders will visit puja mandaps in their respective electoral constituencies and exchange greetings with members of the Sanatan community.
The release further noted that the reorganisation of NCP central committee and the distribution of responsibilities have been finalised, with the restructured committee set to be announced by 13 October.
NCP also decided to announce the list of candidates for local government elections in 100 more upazilas and municipalities next week, while the process of preparing candidate lists for union parishad elections will be expedited.
