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BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia says she has done no injustice in an address to the public at a rally in the port city.

"How much conspiracy is plotted, you know which is true and which is false," she told the rally at Laldighi ground .

In an indirect reference to her main political rival Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, she shad, "I did not flee abroad."

She is widely expected to make an announcement on her party's decision about the general election slated for Dec. 18.

She arrived at the Laldighi ground at 4pm on Friday after driving to the port city at 1:45pm amid thousands of cheering masses greeting her.

The rally at Laldighi ground formally started at 3pm. Chittagong city BNP convenor former member of parliament Syed Wahidul Alam is presiding over the rally.

BNP leaders and workers from far and wide of the city started coming to the rally venue in processions from morning. The ground was full to the brim after noon.

Though BNP is yet to decide about participation in the election. banners of prospective candidates also galore in the gathering.

She went directly to the circuit house for rest and refreshments and later exchanged views with the local BNP leaders on a number of issues.

The BNP chief is also expected to quell the long-running feud between local BNP's two rival groups led by Abdullah Abu Noman and Mir Nasir Uddin, party sources said.

This is Khaleda's first visit to Chittagong since the current military-installed interim government took power and her release on bail from detention on a slew of graft charges.

The local administration has beefed up security ahead of the visit and the public meeting.

Earlier, Khaleda led a huge convoy of hundreds of vehicles packed with the party leaders and workers from Dhaka on way to the port city.

The Chittagong city BNP has made massive preparations ahead of the public meeting.

The former prime minister in SSF cordon waved to tens of thousands of her cheering supporters lining both sides of the streets at Farmgate, Naya Paltan, Shapla Chattar, Tikatuly, Saidabad and Jatrabari in the city.

The convoy then passed through the cheering crowds holding banners and festoons at Siddhirgonj, Kanchpur bridge intersection, Meghna bridge, Daudkandi, Gouripur, Ilyotgonj, Chandina, Nimsar Bazaar and Moynamoti along the Dhaka-Chittagong highway.

In the morning, she placed wreath at the grave of late president Ziaur Rahman and joined a "National Revolution and Solidarity Day" programme in the capital.

BNP leader former minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury told bdnews24.com the Chittagong city BNP has made massive preparations including a huge stage at the Laldighi ground.

"Leaders and workers at all levels are working on it", Chowdhury said.

"We are expecting over one lakh people at the gathering," Chowdhury said, adding they would turn Chittagong into a city of processions and rallies on Friday.

Chittagong metropolitan police commissioner Mohammed Moniruzzaman told bdnews24.com that necessary security measures had been taken for Friday's meeting.

BNP joint secretary general and member of Chittagong city BNP convenors committee Abdullah Al Noman told bdnews24.com that Laldighi event was being organised to mark the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.

"It has nothing to do with the election," he said.

She had a brief halt at a Comilla restaurant. She then left for Chittagong at around 11am.

Khaleda had her last public relations programme on Dhaka-Comilla highway during the campaign for the forestalled Jan. 22, 2007 election.