The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will distribute leaflets on December 26, 27 and 28 and conduct mass contact programmes to drum up support in favour of their campaign to boycott the January 7 national election.

The party announced its three-day programmes from December 26-28 as part of its non-cooperation movement.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi came up with the new announcement at a virtual press briefing on Sunday (December 24).

The programmes will be held nationwide, he added. 

A daylong blockade, called by BNP and like-minded opposition parties to protest the Election Commission's announced schedule for the next national election under the rulling Awami League-led government, is underway.

BNP, Jamaat and like-minded parties have so far observed blockades in the 12th phase to mount pressure on the Awami League government to quit power and hold the next election under a non-partisan administration.

Apart from BNP, the Jamaat-e-Islami, Ganatantra Mancha, Liberal Democratic Party, Gono Odhikar Parishad, AB Party and other like-minded parties also observed hartal and blockade in several times to mount pressure on the AL government to quit power and hold the next election under a non-partisan administration.

BDST: 1615 HRS, DEC 24, 2023
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