BNP lawmakers stage sit-in
BNP lawmakers staged a sit-in at the east site of the parliament on Thursday demanding arrest and exemplary punishment of the policemen responsible for the attack on Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque.
Meanwhile, police arrested a youth when he was trying to set a bus ablaze at Mirpur early Thursday, the second day of the 48-hour countrywide hartal called by BNP-led four-party alliance.
The lawmakers started the sit-in programme at about 9:30am, which continued for one and a half hours.
A total of 17 lawmakers including BNP joint secretary general Mahbubuddin Khokon took part at the programme.
They condemned the attack terming it ‘brutal and inhumane torture’ on the opposition chief whip by police.
Such attack is a threat to the democracy, the lawmakers said.
The BNP central office at city's Nayapaltan are cordoned off by the law enforcers as usual.
Kazi Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station, said they arrested one Masud when he attempted to set fire to a bus stationed near Mirpur-10 intersection at about 1:00am.
Masud in a primary interrogation claimed that a local BNP leader gave him money for setting fire to the bus.
The main opposition party and its allies including the Jamaat-e-Islami enforced the shutdown from 6:00am Wednesday in protest against scrapping of the caretaker government system.
On the first day of hartal, more than 456 people, including 62 in the capital, were arrested across the country amid sporadic clashes between the police and hartal supporters in some areas.
A 12-party alliance led by Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish will enforce a 30-hour shutdown from Sunday morning till 12:00noon of Monday in protest against dropping of the phrase “absolute faith in Allah” from the constitution.
The two-day weekend -- Friday and Saturday -- falls between the two hartals.
Besides deploying a huge number of police and Rab members, the government is using mobile courts to try the hartal supporters on the spot.
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