BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia will lead a mass hunger strike on Wednesday in protest against police assault on opposition chief whip Zainul Abdin Farroque, other law makers and activists during last week's 48-hour hartal.
The main opposition party announced it would hold the mass hunger strike
at the Institution of Engineers in the capital from 10 AM to 4 PM also in protest against the Awami League led government's unilateral abolition of the election time non-party caretaker government system through the controversial 15th amendment of the Constitution.
BNP held nationwide demonstrations on Saturday in protest against repression of the opposition leaders and workers during the hartal the opposition had called opposing abolition of the election time non-party caretaker government system.
BNP took the decision to hold the mass hunger strike at a joint meeting it with its front orgnaisations, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul told reporters after the meeting at BNP central committee office at Naya Paltan.
The party held the joint meeting with the leaders of its front organisations for the success of the six-hour hunger strike without any break.
Mirza Fakhrul said that the police was obstructing BNP leaders and workers from pasting posters depicting the police assaults on opposition leaders and workers during the hartal.
He said that the police arrested BNP leader, Nazrul Islam, from Ramna area while he was pasting the posters.
He condemned placing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal president Sultan Salahuddin Tuku, Juba Dal leader Rafiqul Islam and Dhaka City Corporation commissioner Bazlur Basit on fresh police remand.
He demanded immediate release of all the leaders and workers of the party and withdrawal of all 'false' cases against them.
When his attention was drawn to a media report that the UK government was 'likely' to extradite BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman to Bangladesh under a deal with the government, Fakhrul said he had no knowledge of any such move.
Source : New Age
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