BNP announces 2-day protests

Bangladesh Nationalist Party general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir speaks at an event of the Dhaka Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir speaks at an event of the Dhaka Reporters Unity. Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday announced two-day protest programmes demanding cancellation of Thursday’s by-elections results and withdrawal of the cases against BNP leaders and activists on false allegation of setting fire to buses in the capital.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programmes at an emergency press conference at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office, demanding immediate release of the leaders and activists of the party who were arrested in the false cases against them after a series of arson attacks rocked the capital on Thursday.
The programmes include holding a protest rally in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Saturday and staging of protest rallies at district level across the country on Sunday.
On Thursday, at least 11 buses were set on fire at separate places in the capital and at least 35 people, almost all of them BNP leaders and activists, were arrested until Friday evening, according to police officials.
Referring to the incidents of setting fires to buses in Dhaka city of Thursday, Fakhrul said that their party leaders and activists were not involved in the incidents. ‘But the government agencies could have carried out these incidents to blame BNP leaders and activists.’ New age