Gazipur, Oct 18 (bdnews24.com) ? Awami League's dream to take part in the next general election with Hussein Muhammad Ershad's Jatiya Party as its ally will not come true, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has said. "No party, apart from Awami League and Jatiya Party, is ready to go polls under a political government. So, I'll tell the government that their dream to take part in the election with Ershad as an ally will not come true," Khaleda told a street rally in Gazipur on Tuesday.
"The next general election will be, will be held under non-partisan caretaker government. Awami League will have to take part in the election," she added.
Khaleda was addressing the rally at Kaliakair, a stopover in her second road march to gather people's support for reinstatement of the caretaker government system.
Her convoy, consisting of more than 2,000 vehicles, set out from House Building intersection of the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in Uttara around 10.45am.
A large number of supporters and activists of the party greeted her on her way through Uttara, Abdullahpur and Tongi. She started for Uttara from her Gulshan residence around 10.15am.
The opposition leader is set to address four street rallies at Gazipur, Tangail, Sirajganj and Naogaon on her way to Chapainababganj during the two-day march.
The road march was called demanding reinstatement of the caretaker government system and mid-term elections.
Following a Supreme Court verdict asking for scrapping the 13th constitutional amendment that introduced the caretaker government provision, the government set aside the system through the 15th amendment to the constitution.
BNP acting secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday briefed journalists on the second road march to Chapainawabganj at the party's Naya Paltan headquarters.
Earlier, Khaleda announced the road marches at a Sep 27 rally in front of the party's headquarters. The Oct 10 road march to Sylhet went as planned. However, the party declared a route change in case of the Rajshahi march later, and said that it would instead head to Chapainawabganj.
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