BNP yesterday announced to stage demonstrations across the country today, demanding immediate release of party leader Khaleda Zia from jail.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme at the party’s Nayapaltan central office.

On Thursday, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court deferred till December 12 the hearing on Khaleda Zia’s bail petition in Zia Charitable Trust graft case, as a medical board formed by BSMMU for her treatment could not submit a report on her health before it as per a previous HC directive.

Referring to the deferment, Fakhrul at the press conference said the government has staged a heinous drama over the bail petition of Khaleda Zia.