Addressing a rally, Mannan, also Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives minister, said, "BNP won't resign even a day before completing the tenure of the government,"

Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, BNP's workers front, organised the rally at Paltan Maidan in the afternoon to mark its silver jubilee and in observance of May Day.

Bhuiyan asked the main opposition Awami League (AL) to apologise to people for setting the April 30 deadline for the fall of the present government. He also asked the AL to join parliament.

"If your seats fall vacant for absence in parliament, we will fill up those seats through by-polls," he said.

Referring to the three-point demand of the AL, the BNP secretary general said, "We urged them to join parliament to discuss their three-point, but they didn't."

Addressing it, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Moudud Ahmed alleged the AL was engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the country's economy and tried to hoodwink people by setting the April 30 deadline.

He also asked the main opposition to join parliament and shun "the politics of destruction and anarchy."

Sramik Dal President Nazrul Islam Khan chaired the rally. Among others, State Minister for Labour and Employment Amanullah Aman, senior BNP leader KM Obaidur Rahman and Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pinto, also spoke at the rally.

After the rally, Tarique Rahman, senior joint secretary general of the BNP, led a Sramik Dal procession which paraded different city streets.