A Munshiganj court has granted bail to 42 leaders and activists, including BNP's Organising Secretary advocate Abdus Salam Azad, in a sabotage case.

Commuters in Natore are suffering due to a shortage of buses that usually go through the town as a majority of the vehicles were hired to take Awami League leaders and activists to Rajshahi for the ruling party's divisional rally there.

Over 10,000 AL men went to Rajshahi city on eight special trains hired from the railway authorities.

Awami League leaders and activists have been heading to the Madrasa Maidan in Rajshahi since 6:00am to join the party's rally today.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said the party chief and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will detail her vision of Smart Bangladesh and seek people's support from today's rally in Rajshahi.

At its “silent march” yesterday, the BNP once again asked the government to step down without wasting time.

Terming the BNP’s four-day programme a death march, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the opposition party would face “political death” in the next general election.

The 15th constitutional amendment, which abolished the caretaker government system allowing national elections under partisan government, had devastating impacts on the last two parliamentary polls, eminent citizens said yesterday.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today described BNP's road march as its "funeral procession" and said the party's backward journey has begun with this programme.

Rajshahi is all ready to welcome Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tomorrow for her first public rally in the district in five years.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has invited BNP leaders to see the prime minister's divisional rally in Rajshahi tomorrow from helicopter to witness people's participation.

As part of BNP's four-day programme, BNP leaders and activists started marching towards capital's Abul Hotel area in Malibagh from Shahjadpur to press home their 10-point demand, including holding the next general election under a non-party caretaker government.

Leaders and activists of different units of Dhaka city north Awami League have been making their way to Amir Complex area of Uttara in groups to attend the party's "peace rally" today.

Countering the BNP's four-day march, the ruling Awami League's youth front, Jubo League, is holding a rally in front of the AL headquarters in Gulistan's Bangabandhu Avenue.

Awami League has hired at least seven trains for transporting people to Rajshahi for attending Prime Minister and AL president Sheikh Hasina's divisional rally tomorrow.

Deputy commissioners have been asked to highlight the government’s development works ahead of the next national election.

The ruling Awami League and its associate bodies will hold rallies in the capital today in response to BNP’s four-day march.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said that the government and its agents are trying to foil the ongoing united movement for the restoration of democracy by resorting to various evil strategies and creating fabricated stories about a rift among the opposition alliances.

The next general polls will be held as per the constitution, said Law Minister Anisul Huq today.

The BNP is going to start a four-day march in the capital tomorrow to press home its 10-point demand, including holding the national election under a non-partisan government.