Opposition BNP on Sunday extended full support for the one-point demand of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, urging its leaders, activists, and people from all walks of life to stand by the protesters.
Speaking at a press conference at the BNP Chairperson's Gulshan office, party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called on the government to step down amid the mass upsurge, reports UNB.
The BNP leader stated that the entire nation has rallied behind the Anti-Discrimination Movement's one-point demand for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation and the immediate transfer of power to a neutral government, as announced by the student movement organisers at the central Shaheed Minar on Saturday.
"BNP declares full solidarity with the one-point declaration raised by the anti-discrimination student movement and the masses," he said.
In this extreme crisis facing the nation, Fakhrul urged "democracy-loving people and the leaders, workers, supporters, and well-wishers of the BNP and its affiliated bodies at all levels to take to the streets and unite with the students to accelerate the fall of the 'autocratic' government in the larger interest of the country and the nation."
He also called upon all political parties, organisations, individuals, professionals, workers, farmers, and the vast masses of people to make the non-cooperation movement a success.
The BNP leader noted that a wave of mass uprisings is sweeping across the country, including Dhaka city, against the government.
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