UNB, Dhaka :In the wake of the BNP-led 20-party’s frequent threats to wage a strong movement after Eid, the government is reportedly planning to resist it through launching a drive to arrest BNP leaders and activists in old cases and intimidating them through police raids.Sources at the Home Ministry told UNB that the chiefs of different law enforcement agencies at a closed-door meeting with the state minister for home on Wednesday suggested reviving the cases filed against BNP leaders and activists in connection with violence during the oppositions’ movement before the January-5 election.They opined that BNP’s post-Eid movement plan will not be successful if a countrywide drive is conducted just after the Eid to arrest BNP leaders and activists in the previous cases and intimidate them with frequent house raids and issuing threats to implicate them in fresh cases, the sources added.According to the sources who wished not to be named, the law enforcement agencies’ heads also suggested the minister taking measures to send orders to all police stations all over the country to revive the cases against BNP leaders and activists and start arresting them.The chiefs of law enforcement agencies, including that of Rab and DMP, had the meeting with the minister at his Secretariat office after a meeting on law and order and Eid security held at the ministry.
