The anti-government alliance Jatiya Oikya Front will launch its programmes on Oct 23 from Sylhet to garner public support for its seven-point demand for holding a credible national election.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) chief ASM Abdur Rab made the announcement on Tuesday after the first meeting of the opposition alliance at his Uttara residence.
He said they will go to Sylhet on Oct 23 and offer prayer at the shrines of Hazrat Shahjalal (R) and Shah Paran (R) and likely to hold a public rally.
“We will have a programme to address the people,” he told the media.
The coalition will gradually hold rallies in all divisional cities, including Chattogram, Rajshahi, Khulna and Rangpur, added Rab.
On October 13, BNP together with Dr Kama-led Jatiya Oikya Prokriya, JSD and Nagorik Oikya launched the Jatiy Oikya Front.
Rab said the meeting took two decisions — forming a liaison committee involving the alliance leaders and holding grand rallies.
The JSD leader sought cooperation of the government and the administration to peacefully hold their programmes ahead of the national election.
He said the Front leaders will hold another meeting on Wednesday, and then announce the names of the liaison committee members.
At one stage of the meeting, former caretaker government adviser Mainul Hosein attended it.
Apart from Rob and Hosein, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, JSD General Secretary Abdul Malek Ratan, Gano Forum Executive President Subrata Chowdhury, General Secretary Mostafa Mohsin Montu, Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, who leads a pro-BNP professionals group, and former vice president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) Sultan Mohammad Mansur Ahmed were present at the meeting.