Bangladesh’s main Opposition BNP party chief Khaleda Zia on Tuesday asked people across the country to march to the capital on December 29 to force the scrapping of the January 5 polls.
Warning the Awami league-led Government not to create any obstacles for the movement she dubbed the “March for Democracy”, Zia said the upcoming polls “could be the last nail in the coffin of democracy”.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is boycotting the polls and political violence during nationwide strikes and blockades enforced by an Opposition alliance have left over 100 people dead and crippled the economy since November.
“I urge all able bodied countrymen cutting across their affiliation, religion and class to join the rally on December 29,” former premier Zia told a news conference at her office in Gulshan area.