BNP has called for a big rally in the capital. Leaders and activists from different districts and divisional cities will participate in it. The party's acting chairman Tarique Rahman will address the rally as the chief guest. The decision was announced after a joint meeting at the party chairperson's Gulshan office.

The party's standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan announced the program at a press conference at the BNP chairperson's political office in Gulshan on Tuesday afternoon.

He said that the working people are not at peace because the workers are not able to get their national wages. BNP will observe May Day properly to achieve the rights of the workers. The rally will be held in front of the party's central office in Nayapaltan on May 1, on the occasion of the great May Day, at the initiative of the National Workers' Party.

The joint meeting, chaired by party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, was attended by party standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan, senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, joint secretary general Imran Saleh Prince, Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP convener Aminul Haque, and top leaders of the Nationalist Youth Party and Women's Party.