Curb on food supply continues

Police for the seventh straight day did not allow food from outside for Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office staff yesterday.

Though on the previous days, police barred food delivery at the office gate but yesterday they did it some 50 yards away, presumably to evade media eyes, according to eyewitnesses.

A rickshaw van carrying lunch boxes and water was stopped on Road 86 around 2:20pm and sent back. Also, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw carrying dry foods was not allowed to enter the office.

Khaleda along with some 50 staff has been staying at her office since January 3. Police on February 11 curbed food supply for all others, except for Khaleda.

'BROOM' RALLY AGAINST KHALEDA

A group of women under the banner of "Amra Mirpurbasi" demonstrated wielding brooms at Gulshan-2 intersection around 12:40pm.

Ruling party lawmaker Sabina Akhtar Tuhin, also a leader of Jubo Mohila League, led the programme and said if Khaleda Zia does not withdraw hartal and blockade immediately, they would bar water supply to the office of the BNP chairperson.