The Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its major ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami staged countrywide demonstrations on Saturday in protest at the police 'torture' on the opposition leaders and activists during strike hours on Wednesday and Thursday.
BNP and its allies enforced the 48-hour nationwide shutdown demanding annulment of the 15th Amendment that scrapped the caretaker government provision. BNP claimed that over 500 leaders and activists were injured, including the opposition chief whip, Zainul Abdin Farroque, in police action.
On the first day of the shutdown on Wednesday, law enforcers assaulted the opposition chief whip following an altercation at the city's Manik Mia Avenue. Farroque was undergoing treatment at United Hospital.
The BNP also announced a 'mass hunger strike' for Wednesday in protest against the police torture on the opposition leaders and activists.
On Saturday, Dhaka city unit of BNP organised a protest rally in front of the party's Naya Paltan central office.
Chaired by party vice-chairman and Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khokha, also the convener of Dhaka city unit of BNP, the protest rally was addressed, among others, by BNP standing committee members MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Mia, vice-chairman Altaf Hossain Chowdhury and chairperson's advisers Shamsuzzaman Dudu and Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin.
Addressing the rally, acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir
said the people had observed the 48-hour general strike defying obstructions to give a message to the government that they wanted the caretaker government provision to be restored.
He accused the government of ordering the assault on the opposition chief whip.
'The government will not be able to stop the movement by unleashing repression on its political opponents,' he said.
He called upon all democratically-oriented people to join the '0mass hunger strike' to be led by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at the city's Engineers' Institution.
Jamaat organised its central rally in front of its Purana Paltan city office with its city chapter president Rafiqul Islam Khan in the chair.
Jamaat leaders and activists will be fasting on Wednesday, the day the BNP will observe 'mass hunger strike' in the capital city.
New Age correspondents in different districts, including Barisal, Bogra, Sylhet, Chittagong and Feni reported that local units of BNP and Jamaat had organised rallies and processions in their respective areas on the day.
Source : New Age
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