Nationwide BNP demo tomorrow protesting mass arrest
The BNP will stage demonstrations in the capital and elsewhere in the country tomorrow protesting, what the party says, mass arrest of innocent people and BNP leaders and activists in the name of crackdown. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday announced the programme through a press conference at the partys Naya Paltan central office in the capital. He also sought a suo-moto ruling by the high court to stop, what he said, the countywide mass arrests and extra judicial killings. Replying to a question, he said the BNP could not launch any programme as the government is arresting people, including the BNP leaders and activists, on a mass-scale in the pretext of curbing militancy. As part of the programme, the city unit of the BNP would organise a protest rally at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh at 10am tomorrow. Besides, demonstrations will also be organised at city-levels, he said. Rizvi alleged that at least 2,682 BNP leaders and activists have been arrested in the last six days of the crackdown by law enforcers. He alleged that the government was trying to extend the misrule by resorting to repression on the common people by implicating them in false cases. The government is passing a busy time pondering on the tactic as to how it can stay in power by eliminating the opposition and carry out savage repression on them, he said. BNP chairpersons adviser Advocate Ahmed Azam Khan, joint secretary general Syed Moazzme Hossain Alal, Khairul Kabir Khokan and Abdus Salam Azad, among others, were present at the meeting.
