PM reaches Rangpur to join grand rally

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Rangpur this afternoon on a daylong visit to attend a number of programmes, including a grand rally.

After a helicopter carrying her landed at Rangpur Cantonment at 1:13pm, the PM was escorted to the Circuit House where she is holding a meeting with Rangpur divisional government officials.

She is expected to reach Rangpur Zilla School around 3:00pm to attend the grand rally, which the AL leaders said will be the largest gathering in the district with a participation of one million people of all walks of life.

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A large boat-shaped stage was built by the workers of Dhaka and Rajshahi where 300 leaders and activists can sit together.

The Awami League president will later address a mammoth public rally.

A festive mood has been prevailing among Awami League and its front and associate bodies' leaders and activists, and common people for a couple of days over the prime minister's visit in Rangpur district after around five years since she visited Pirganj and Taraganj on December 23 in 2018.