Bangladesh Nationalist Party issued 10-point suggestion for its leaders, activists and supporters across the country including careful movement and avoiding going to any desolate and insecure streets alone to avert abduction.
The party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters at a press conference at the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan-2 residence in the capital on Friday afternoon.
The 10-point included—
1. Create awareness among mass people against the ongoing killings and abductions through leaflets, posters, meetings and view exchange meetings and wage mass resistance.
2. Be careful during movement. Avoid single movement and unsafe places.
3. Leaders should look after the activists, activists should do the same and all have to pay attention to the security of people and maintain mutual contact as far as probable.
4. Keep the collections of phone numbers and contact details of print and electronic media journalists, right activists and law enforcers. If any unavoidable incident takes place, inform them and the party leaders and activists through phone calls or SMS immediately.
5. Keep regular contact with the central office of BNP and report about every single incident.
6. If any news on abduction comes, gather in the place with as much people as you can and try to resist together.
7. If anyone tries to pick anyone in the name of law enforcers, be ensure of their identity and try to know about the place, where the detainee was taken.
8. Go to the place where the detainee has been taken and talk to the responsible persons and try to know why s/he was detained. Try to know also when s/he will be sent to court. If possible take journalists and eminent persons.
9. If anyone gives wrong identities of law enforcers, try to resist him and hand them over to police.
10. Stand beside the victim’s family and place their views in the media. Announce and observe programmes protesting killing and abduction. Include the other political parties and social organsiations in your programme.
While issuing the suggestions, Fakhrul asked the party leaders and activists of all tires to implement the “organisational red alert.”
The Narayanganj district lawyers association on Thursday called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district for Sunday protesting the killing of Chandan Sarkar, a senior lawyer at Narayanganj district judge’s court.
BNP supports the hartal morally in the wake of the continuous abduction incidents, Fakhrul said.
The bodies of Chandan and five others were found floating on the river Shitalakkhya on Wednesday, three days after seven people, including city corporation councillor Nazrul, were kidnapped in broad daylight in Narayanganj.
We are urging them to wage protest and resistance. We want a safe, civilised and democratic society and for that come and be united,” he said.
Pointing to the recent abductions and killings, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday said she would come down to the streets herself to move for the security of the people. “No one is safe now.”
Source: Prothom Alo