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Dhaka, June 12 (bdnews24.com)The BNP has threatened to go for a non-stop hartal if what it claims wholesale arrest of its leaders and activists and bid to foil the ongoing shutdown is not stopped.
"If police continue to arrest and harass our leaders and activists, we will be compelled to enforce a 72-hour or even a seven-day general strike," party's acting secretary general Mirza Fkhrul Islam Alamgir said at the beginning of their 36-hour non stop nationwide hartal on Sunday morning.
Talking to journalists in front of the party's Nayapaltan head office, he claimed that the shutdown was being observed peacefully and 'without any picketing' with the spontaneous support of the people.
BNP and its main ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami are enforcing the non-stop Sunday morning to Monday evening lockdown programme, protesting the government move to revoke the caretaker government system.
Fakhrul, along with party leaders and activists, was staying at Nayapaltan while police around the BNP office were seen barbing people to enter the office.
A mobile court magistrate also took position in front of BNP office around 9am when Nazrul Islam Khan and several other BNP standing committee members were sitting in front of the office's main gate.
Opposition chief whip Zainul Abdin Farroque locked into a scuffle with the police personnel in the morning after being barred to take out a procession in favour of the lockdown. Fakhrul received minor injuries in his right hand while trying to mediate.
Police then arrested eight people, including BNP's associate youth body Juba Dal's senior vice-president Abul Kalam Azad and joint general secretary Mahbubul Islam Swapan and leader of Krishak Dal, BNP's associate peasant's body, Shajahan Mia Samrat.
Fakhrul protested the incident. He told journalists, "Police seem to have besieged BNP office. The hartal cannot be foiled in this way."
"The government has restrained people's basic democratic rights by setting up a mobile court to foil the shutdown. They have unleashed autocracy in the country," he continued.
"If the government obstructs the political parties' democratic rights, we will enforce 48-hour or 72-hour hartals, if needed. We will be even bound to go for 7-day protest programmes," Fakhrul threatened.
"Don't foil our peaceful programmes," he said and urged the government to stop "repression" on the opposition activists.
BNP threatens non-stop hartal | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com
"If police continue to arrest and harass our leaders and activists, we will be compelled to enforce a 72-hour or even a seven-day general strike," party's acting secretary general Mirza Fkhrul Islam Alamgir said at the beginning of their 36-hour non stop nationwide hartal on Sunday morning.
Talking to journalists in front of the party's Nayapaltan head office, he claimed that the shutdown was being observed peacefully and 'without any picketing' with the spontaneous support of the people.
BNP and its main ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami are enforcing the non-stop Sunday morning to Monday evening lockdown programme, protesting the government move to revoke the caretaker government system.
Fakhrul, along with party leaders and activists, was staying at Nayapaltan while police around the BNP office were seen barbing people to enter the office.
A mobile court magistrate also took position in front of BNP office around 9am when Nazrul Islam Khan and several other BNP standing committee members were sitting in front of the office's main gate.
Opposition chief whip Zainul Abdin Farroque locked into a scuffle with the police personnel in the morning after being barred to take out a procession in favour of the lockdown. Fakhrul received minor injuries in his right hand while trying to mediate.
Police then arrested eight people, including BNP's associate youth body Juba Dal's senior vice-president Abul Kalam Azad and joint general secretary Mahbubul Islam Swapan and leader of Krishak Dal, BNP's associate peasant's body, Shajahan Mia Samrat.
Fakhrul protested the incident. He told journalists, "Police seem to have besieged BNP office. The hartal cannot be foiled in this way."
"The government has restrained people's basic democratic rights by setting up a mobile court to foil the shutdown. They have unleashed autocracy in the country," he continued.
"If the government obstructs the political parties' democratic rights, we will enforce 48-hour or 72-hour hartals, if needed. We will be even bound to go for 7-day protest programmes," Fakhrul threatened.
"Don't foil our peaceful programmes," he said and urged the government to stop "repression" on the opposition activists.
BNP threatens non-stop hartal | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com
so BD should do away with democratic protest rights ?
