The Awami League and 13 other allied political parties will organise joint public rallies in Sunamganj and Mongla in Bagerhat district today to rally support for their plan to form a second cross country human wall on December 30.

The second cross-country human chain to be formed from Sunamganj in the extreme south-eastern tip to Mongla at the north-western end of the country with a call to the people from all walks of life to express their ‘no-confidence’ in the BNP-led alliance government for what they said its miserable failure to govern the state.

Earlier on December 11, the united opposition formed the first human wall from Teknaf to Tentulia pressing for the same demand.

Central leaders of the Awami League, the left-democratic 11-party alliance, the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD-Inu) and the National Awami Party (NAP-Mozaffar) will address the public rallies from same dais to mobilise popular support of their nine-point charter of demand that include immediate resignation of the riling alliance early polls under a neutral non-partisan caretaker administration.

However, the central leaders of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), a key component of the 11-party alliance, has stunned its allies by announcing that they would not address rallies from same dais today and would hold a separate public rally in the city’s Muktangan to drum up support for the December 30 action plan.

The central leaders of 14 opposition parties who would speak at the public rally at Sunamganj today include Amir Hossain Amu, Suranjit Sengupta, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Sultan Md Mansur Ahmed, Abdur Rahman, Nurul Islam Nahid and Sylhet City Mayor Badaruddin Ahmed Quamran of Awami League, Dilip Barua of Samyabadi Dal, Rashed Khan Menon of Workers Party, Saifuddin Ahmed Manik of Gano Forum, Azizul Islam Khan of Ganatantri Party, Syed Zafar Sajjad and Nazmul Huq Prodhan of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD-Inu), Amena Ahmed of National Awami Party (NAP-Mozaffar) and Barun Roy of Communist Kendra.

Abdul Jalil, Obaidul Quader, Abdul Mannan, Takuldar Abdul Khaleque and Mostafa Rashidee Suja of Awami League, Bimal Biswas of Workers Party, Pankaj Bhattacharjee of Gano Forum, Md Nurul Islam of Ganatantri Party, Abu Hamed Shahabuddin of Samyabadi Dal, Mainuddin Khan Badal and Sharif Nurul Ambia of JSD-Inu, Saifur Rahman of NAP, Abdus Samad of Gano Azadi League, Zakir Hossain of the Ganatantrik Majdoor Party and Asit Roy of Communist Kendra would speak at the public rally at Mongla today (December 24).

Besides, all the opposition political parties in the combined opposition have, by this time, geared up their activities holding joint meetings, special extended meeting and mass contact programmes in areas covering the 800 kilometre-long route of the planned human wall from Sunamganj to Mongla on December 30.

The central leaders of the CPB had already started their mass contact programmes in some 53 upazilas of 19 districts covering the route of the human wall while the Awami League’s four-day mass contact programme begins on December 26.

The Awami League has already finalised the list of the local and central leaders who would participate in the mass contact programmes.