Khaleda's public rally at Barisal tomorrow
Large hoardings cover the frontal view of Barisal Ashwini Kumar Hall at the heart of the city, and right, a main thoroughfare of the city gets 'decorated' with colourful lightings, banners and posters as BNP activists have made grand arrangements to welcome party Chairperson Khaleda Zia this evening. Photo: STAR
The divisional city now assumes a festive look as BNP activists have made a grand arrangement to welcome party Chairperson Khaleda Zia this evening. Khaleda, also the leader of opposition in parliament and former prime minister, will address a grand rally of BNP-led 18-party alliance at Bell's Park in the city at 2:00pm tomorrow. It is going to be her second visit to the city as the main opposition leader after the ninth parliament election of December 29, 2008. On May 12 in 2010, she addressed a grand rally on the same venue. Meanwhile, there are reports of factional clashes among BNP activists in different areas of the region ahead of the party chief's visit to Barisal city. On Friday night, four people were injured and hundreds of posters torn as the followers of Gournadi upazila BNP President engineer Sobhan and former BNP lawmaker Zahiruddin Swapon got locked in clashes over setting of posters with their photos and names to greet Khaleda Zia. In Babuganj, followers of upazila Chairman Sultan Ahmed Khan and upazila BNP President Ishrat Hasan Kochi clashed over erecting welcome gates and placing billboards on Barisal-Dhaka highway on Thursday night, injuring two persons and damaging materials. The intra-party rivals blamed each other for the incidents. Activists of BNP and its front organisations are now busy making announcements through loudspeakers, conducting mass contacts, distributing leaflets and handbills, decorating lightings on the streets and giving finishing touches to decorations and gates, and erecting the stage at the meeting venue. More than 700 gates are being erected and thousands of banners and billboards will be placed on the way to welcome of Khaleda Zia, the organisers said, adding that party activists offered voluntary labour and donations for the purpose.
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