Police have arrested senior BNP leader Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin from the Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong for is alleged involvement in violence during the Opposition’s 71-hour nationwide transport blockade.
He was nabbed around 9:30pm on Thursday, Chittagong Metropolitan Police’s Additional Commissioner Banaj Kumar Majumder told bdnews24.com.
The former state minister for civil aviation was on his way to Dhaka, he said.
Nasir was arrested in a case filed over vandalism and arson in the port city during the blockade being enforced by the 18-Party alliance.
Nasir, a former Chittagong mayor, is currently an advisor to Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia.
Earlier in the morning, police had arrested BNP leader Golam Akbar Khandaker, accused in the same case with Nasir.
Chittagong BNP city unit President Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury was also accused in the violence case. Police raided his house on Wednesday night but did not find him there.
Former Commerce Minister Amir Khasru, Mir Nasir, Central Organising Secretary Khandaker and BNP Chittagong Metropolitan unit General Secretary Shahadat Hossain were booked in two cases filed with Kotwali and Chawkbazar police station over arson and vandalism on Wednesday.
They have been accused in three other cases as well along with over 900 Opposition supporters.
The Opposition had given the call for a transport blockade on Monday in protest against the schedule of the general election announced by the Election Commission.
It has been pressing for a non-party poll-time government to oversee the 10th parliamentary elections.
Source: bdnews24
