Staff Reporter :
Police on Sunday foiled the BNP’s protest meeting organised in the Institute of Engineers in the city. The Dhaka city unit of the BNP announced the programme on Saturday to protest arrest warrant issued against its Senior
Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman. The BNP leaders condemned the incident saying, “There is no democratic right in the country.”
“There is no democratic right in our country presently. The government foiled the pre-announced protest meeting in the Institute of Engineers. We booked the auditorium and the police verbally permitted us to organise it. But today (Sunday) the police locked the auditorium and prevented the leaders and the activists from entering the meeting venue,” said BNP Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu.
He said it in a press briefing at Nayapaltan office.
Dudu said, “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said in the United States during her recent tour, about presence of democratic rights in our country. Is it the sample of the democratic right? We ask the government to behave in a democratic way.”
BNP leader Abdus Salam, Syed Emran Saleh Prince and Habibur Rahman, among others, were present in the briefing.
Meanwhile, the city BNP organised protest rallies in city’s Motijheel, Mugda, Sabujbagh, Paltan, Shahbagh, Khilgaon, Shahjahanpur, Shyampur, Jatrabari, Kadamtali, Demra, Kafrul, Chawkbazar, Kolabagan, Lalbagh, Mohammadpur, Bhatara, Badda, Tejgaon, Rupnagar, Pallabi, Kotwali, Dakkhinkhan and Shutrapur thanas.
Police on Sunday foiled the BNP’s protest meeting organised in the Institute of Engineers in the city. The Dhaka city unit of the BNP announced the programme on Saturday to protest arrest warrant issued against its Senior
Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman. The BNP leaders condemned the incident saying, “There is no democratic right in the country.”
“There is no democratic right in our country presently. The government foiled the pre-announced protest meeting in the Institute of Engineers. We booked the auditorium and the police verbally permitted us to organise it. But today (Sunday) the police locked the auditorium and prevented the leaders and the activists from entering the meeting venue,” said BNP Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu.
He said it in a press briefing at Nayapaltan office.
Dudu said, “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said in the United States during her recent tour, about presence of democratic rights in our country. Is it the sample of the democratic right? We ask the government to behave in a democratic way.”
BNP leader Abdus Salam, Syed Emran Saleh Prince and Habibur Rahman, among others, were present in the briefing.
Meanwhile, the city BNP organised protest rallies in city’s Motijheel, Mugda, Sabujbagh, Paltan, Shahbagh, Khilgaon, Shahjahanpur, Shyampur, Jatrabari, Kadamtali, Demra, Kafrul, Chawkbazar, Kolabagan, Lalbagh, Mohammadpur, Bhatara, Badda, Tejgaon, Rupnagar, Pallabi, Kotwali, Dakkhinkhan and Shutrapur thanas.
