BNP will stage demonstration across the country on Sunday in protest against police action that barred it from holding its scheduled rally at the Engineers’ Institute in the city on Thursday. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the propgramme at a press briefing at party’s Nayapaltan central office on Friday. Dhaka City BNP was to arrange the rally in protest against the rising incidents of killing, force disappearance and abduction across the country. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia was scheduled to address the rally as the chief guest. Eminent citizens, senior journalists and foreign diplomats were invited to the programme. But, police locked the main gate of the Engineers’ Institute’s auditorium hours before the beginning of the rally saying that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) did not give permission for the programme. –UNB, Dhaka.
