BNP joint secretary general Rizvi Ahmed yesterday said the 20-party’s countrywide non-stop blockade would continue until they take a fresh decision in this regard.
“The blockade programme will continue until further announcement,” Rizvi said while talking to some journalists at a house in thecity’s Gulshan area hours after he sneaked out of Apollo Hospital on Tuesday night.
Rizvi alleged that the government as part of its evil intention to kill Khaleda sprayed poisonous pepper powder towards Khaleda by law enforcers on Monday, causing her turn ill. He called upon country’s to wage strong resistance against the current repressive government.Rizvi also condemned and protested the arrest of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and demanded of the government to release him immediately. The announcement of continuous blockade came at a time when the nation was in confusion whether the 20-party alliance withdraws the blockade programme or relaxes it ahead of Biswa Ijtema of Tabligh Jamaat on the bank of the Turag River.
The BNP is yet to take decision whether the non-stop blockade will be relaxed ahead of three-day Biswa Ijtema beginning on Friday at Tongi.
Talking to Journalists, BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (Retd) Mahbubur Rahman said no decision in this regard has yet been taken.
“The party may relax the blockade considering the second largest ever Muslim Congregation so that devotees could take part in it,” he said.
Khaleda Zia enforced the countrywide non-stop blockade from Tuesday having failed to come out of her office on Monday afternoon to join a scheduled rally of 20-party alliance in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan office to mark “Democracy Killing Day”.
Meanwhile, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia remained confined to her Gulshan office for the fifth day on Wednesday.
A significant number of law enforcers was deployed barricading all entry points by parking water cannon and police vans in front of the office main gate .
Khaleda did not appear before the Bakshibazar makeshift court yesterday in two graft cases as what her lawyer claimed the main gate of her office was kept locked.
The BNP chairperson was kept confined to her office since Saturday night as she threatened to hold mass rallies in Dhaka to mark ‘Democracy Killing Day’ on January 5, the first anniversary of the last parliamentary polls boycotted by the BNP-led alliance and most other political parties.
Although the sand and brick-chips-laden trucks were removed from the main gate of Khaleda’s office huge members of law enforcing agencies were kept deployed in front of the office
The road- no 86 in Gulshan-2 has also been made off limits to traffic and public movement while the law enforcers are requesting people to use alternative roads.
The main gate and the entrance to the office have been locked up by the law enforcers and no one except the BNP chief’s security personnel is allowed to enter there.
Several female leaders of BNP last morning managed to come out from Khaleda’s Gulshan office.
A six-member delegation of public university teachers and some journalists separately visited Khaleda yesterday. Talking to reporters outside Khaleda’s office, Prof Yusuf Haider said they are very much worried due to Khaleda’s sickness due to police pepper spray while she was talking with reporters on Monday afternoon at her office compound.
Dr Serajuddin Ahammed of Orthopedics Department, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University also visited Khaleda at her office yesterday. – Staff Reporter
