BNP allowed for Suhrawardy Udyan rally on Sunday

The BNP has got the green light to hold a rally in Dhaka on Sunday.

Senior leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told the media on Saturday that the authorities have set 23 conditions for the rally at the capital's Suhrawardy Udyan.

The rally is meant to observe Nov 7, which the BNP observes every year as the ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’.

BNP-founder Ziaur Rahman became the army chief after the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on Aug 15, 1975.

Within months, he was put under house arrest following a coup led by Maj Gen Khaled Mosharraf, who was a sector commander during the 1971 Liberation War.

However, Zia was freed within four days in a counter-coup led by another sector commander Col Abu Taher on Nov 7, 1975, and assumed power by declaring himself the chief martial law administrator, the first in the country’s history.

The ruling Awami League, however, describes it as the ‘Day of Massacre of Freedom Fighters’.