Amid the growing political tension ahead of the BNP-led 20-party’s January-5 rally, members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed in the city to help maintain the law and order.
The BGB men started patrolling the city streets from 6pm on Sunday, said sources at the BGB headquarters.
In the wake of escalating political tension over the programmes and counter-programmes of the ruling and opposition parties to mark the January 5 election, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Sunday imposed a ban on holding all types of public rally and gathering in the city from 5pm today (Sunday).
However, BNP expressed its firm stance about taking to the streets on Monday to mark the day as ‘Democracy Killing Day’.
Police confined BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to her Gulshan political office around 11:30pm on Saturday, forcing her to spend overnight there.
Several vehicles have been kept at different locations around the office, restricting movement of any type of vehicle.
On Saturday midnight, plainclothes police also vacated BNP’s Nayapaltan central office and put it under lock and key after picking up its ailing joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and driving out 4-5 office staff.
Minutes before locking it, a team of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police picked Rizvi up from the BNP office and took him to Apollo Hospital for treatment.
The BNP leader is now being treated at the hospital under police custody. But the law enforcers still did not make it clear whether they have arrested Rizvi or not.
