Dhaka – Huge law enforcers have cordoned off BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan residence on Sunday afternoon as the opposition leader is ‘set to come out of her residence’ to join the Nayapaltan programme.Sources said around eight platoons of police have been deployed around the opposition leader’s house since Saturday night.
The law enforcers have created barricades on two sides of the road in front of the residence. Some trucks have also been parked there indiscriminately.
The law enforcers also dumped two trucks of sand in front of the main gate of Khaleda’s residence, apparently to create an obstacle to movement of the opposition leader’s vehicle.
BNP leaders alleged the opposition leader’s police protocol has also been withdrawn.
Khaleda Zia in a meeting with a delegation of pro-BNP journalists on Saturday night expressed her firm determination to join the Nayapaltan rally. “The opposition leader told us she’ll join the rally at any cost,” general secretary of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) Elias Khan told UNB emerging from Khaleda’s Gulshan residence.
Meanwhile, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a statement on Saturday night alleged that its chairperson Khaleda Zia has been confined to her Gulshan residence after withdrawing her police protocol. – UNB
