The acting secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday expressed his fear that the government might obstruct the party's hunger strike it has planned to hold in the capital today.
The BNP is holding the mass hunger strike at the Institution of Engineers in the capital in protest at police assault on the opposition chief whip, 'torture' on party activists during the
July 6–7 general strike and in demand for annulment of the 15th amendment to the constitution.
The leader of the opposition in the parliament, Khaleda Zia, also the BNP chairperson, is scheduled to lead the hunger strike between 10:00am and 6:00pm.
'The government has for long been obstructing our programmes. We were not allowed even to form human chains. So we fear that the government may try to obstruct our hunger strike,' Fakhrul said in response to a question after he had visited the Institution of Engineers to oversee the preparation for the hunger strike.
'The hunger strike to be led by Khaleda Zia will continue from 10:00am to 6:00pm,' Fakhrul said.
He hoped that leaders of like-minded political parties, professional bodies and democratically-oriented people would join the hunger strike to protect 'democracy and people's right to franchise.'
BNP vice-chairman Abdullah Al Noman, joint secretaries general Amanullah Aman and Barkatullah Bulu and Dhaka city unit member secretary Abdus Salam accompanied Fakhrul.
Source : New Age
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