BNP working out 3-month roadmap for effective movement

Still struggling to catch up with the post-election politics, BNP has now set a target to have a positive outcome from its ongoing anti-government movement within the next three months as the party leaders feel mid-October to mid-January to be climatically a very suitable time for giving it a final shape, reports UNB.
Senior party leaders said though they failed to realise their demand through their last year's decisive movement waged during the same period due to their some wrong strategies, this time they will be able to reach the goal with a well-thought-out plan.
They said they will start their movement with some peaceful action programmes like rally, countrywide vigorous mass campaign, human chain, sit-in and road march, to force the government to engage in talks for holding a fresh poll.
If that does not work and the government obstructs their programmes, they will then take harsher street programmes like non-stop hartal, blockade, and non-cooperation.
A BNP policymaker, wishing not to be named, said their party chairperson Khaleda Zia is very confident that there will be a fresh general election early next year and she has already asked some senior leaders to prepare a comprehensive strategy for both the movement and the possible election.
"Autumn and winter (mid-October to mid-January) are a very suitable time for any movement. All the successful and big movements in the past had been carried out in Bangladesh during the period. Now rainy season is almost over. There's little possibility of any natural disaster like flood or storm in the next three to four months. So, we've a plan to use this time for making our movement a success," said BNP standing committee member Lt Gen Mahbubur Rahman.
The BNP leader said their party standing committee will sit in a meeting very soon to finalise their movement strategy and line of actions.
Echoing Mahbub, another BNP standing committee member Hannan Shah also said they, as per their commitment of waging a movement after Eid-ul-Azha, will initiate it with peaceful programmes on different issues and a widespread mass campaign. "It'll turn violent if the government doesn't change its uncompromising and repressive stance."
Both Mahbub and Hannan recognised that their pre-January 5 movement did not yield the desired results due to some wrong strategies and organisational weakness in the Dhaka city unit of BNP.
"We learn from our mistakes. We made some mistakes in the previous movement. But we've already identified those and devised a new plan. A new convening committee of Dhaka City BNP has been formed. The committee is working hard to strengthen the unit. We've our own plan and we hope this time we'll be successful," said Hannan Shah.