Dhaka, July 19 -- For the first time in its history, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to hold a large-scale national rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka this Saturday, to press home a seven-point charter of demands.
The rally, scheduled for 2:00pm, is being billed by party leaders as a "historic mass gathering," with the expectation of drawing more than a million participants from across the country.
Jamaat's leaders claim that a groundswell of support is already visible. "We are receiving an overwhelming response from the public. Just from our preliminary count, at least 10,000 buses have been arranged to transport people to Dhaka," said Nurul Islam Bulbul, the party's Dhaka South City unit chief. "And that's not including trains and lau...