Połacak businessman Gennady Berdyanyov not in favor of the NGO "Perspective", voiced at a meeting of individual entrepreneurs – to hold a meeting on Bangalore Square in Minsk. It encourages small businesses from all cities of Belarus to unite together to go to protest in the main square of Minsk.
Gennady Berdyanyov explained this alternative initiative:
"During the meeting of entrepreneurs was made a message that they will meet on February 15 rally at Bangalore Square.
People who arrived in Minsk to the meeting, initiated by the "Perspective", – they come from different regions, cities and towns of Belarus. These people have no idea what the Bangalore area.
And it is – a place for dog walking, and not for individual entrepreneurs meeting. So we lose the position, which sought more effort. These meetings of district, city and regional executive committees – so gradually, step by step, we moved to Minsk to organize to express themselves and to express their position. And gather at Bangalore Square – is to show the fig in the pocket: no one hears and no one will see. So it was possible and in the forest to picnic get together. In the meantime, people have run out of money, people are confused and give up. And it should not be, we have to fight and achieve their right to work. It is necessary to unite all active people, and I urge to contact me at my personal phone, through social networks on the Internet. We have a focal point, and we will consult our further joint activities.
Two years ago I was at a meeting organized by the "Perspective", and I really liked it. But it took two years, and as a written request, petitions, and continue to write. I do not want to split, and I want to put pressure on the government from all sides. "Perspective" – they're doing their job, but they are a little wrong.
We do not have to Bangalore, and do not have to start us in the woods. We should be in the center, and the government should listen to us.
If Shumchanka for some reason are not ready to lead the people to the streets, there are other people who are willing to unite and lead people to the main square, because the government does not hear us."
Halina Abakunchik, Radio Liberty