Dhaka city BNP is set to enforce a 24-hour shutdown in the city at 6am on Sunday protesting the arrest of its convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
The general strike that will begin at 6am on Sunday and end 6am on Monday while a fresh spell of nationwide 72-hour road-rail-waterway blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, is progressing amid stray incidents of violence.
The shutdown is also meant for mounting pressure on the government for withdrawing the ‘false cases’ filed against senior BNP leaders, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
The protest programme was chalked out in an emergency meeting of the city unit BNP with its member secretary Abdus Salam in the chair on Friday.
Earlier, on Wednesday night, law enforcers arrested BNP vice-chairman and its Dhaka city unit convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka from the city’s Uttara area.
The BNP leader was shown arrested in two cases recently filed against some opposition leaders.
Of them, one was filed against 16 opposition leaders, including Khoka, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and its joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, on November 29 in connection with the arson attack of November 28 on a bus in the city’s Shahbagh area that left three people dead and 15 others injured.
The other case was filed on Sunday against 15 opposition leaders, including Fakhrul and Khoka, with Ramna Police Station in connection with Saturday’s arson attack on a bus in the city’s Malibagh area that left a man dead and four people injured.
Source: UNBConnect
