BNP to reveal new list of party men
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will today release a list of opposition men “killed” and “disappeared” in the last three months.
She would also talk about the current political situation at a press briefing to be held at a hotel in the capital around 4:00pm, sources in the party told The Daily Star yesterday.
It will be Khaleda's second press meet since January 5 parliamentary polls, which was boycotted by the then BNP-led 18-party alliance as it was not held under a non-party caretaker government.
A team led by BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been working on the preparation of the list at Khaleda's Gulshan office for the last two weeks.
The team gathered information from different sources, including four investigation teams of the party that visited the affected areas, said chief of an investigation team.
Earlier on January 22, Fakhrul at a press conference in the capital's Naya Paltan office claimed that 294 activists of the 18-party alliance had been killed in the last three months by law enforcers.
He also alleged that 187 others also disappeared during the period.
Later, BNP sent a list of victims to reporters through email. But the list had a lot of inconsistencies that created confusion among the newsmen.
BNP-led alliance's demonstrations today
BNP-led 19-party combine will hold demonstrations at every thana in the capital today, as police did not give them permission to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan yesterday.
BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced this at a press briefing at the party's central office in the capital's Naya Paltan yesterday.
The combine was scheduled to stage demonstrations and processions in every thana of the capital yesterday, but deferred this without showing any reason.
Earlier, the alliance deferred the Saturday's protest rally at Suhrawardy Udyan for Ekushey Book Fair's inaugural ceremony, and Sunday's rally for Akheri Munajat of Biswa Ijtema.
The BNP-led combine announced that it would bring out countrywide black-flag processions protesting the convening of “illegal parliament” on January 29.
Failing to hold the programme, Mirza Fakhrul on the same day announced the countrywide rallies, including one in the capital, for Saturday last.
At yesterday's press conference, Rizvi also condemned the attack on general students by Bangladesh Chhatra League men and police at Rajshahi University.
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