Nayapaltan rally: BNP waits for DMP’s formal nod
As the BNP prepares to hold a rally at the city’s Nayapaltan today, the party and the Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday gave contradictory statements on permission for the programme.
Talking to The Daily Star, BNP Publicity Affairs Secretary Shaheed Uddin Chowdhury Annie said they received “verbal permission” from the DMP for holding the rally at 2:00pm.
The rally will be organised demanding release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.
But the DMP commissioner, Md Shafiqul Islam, last evening said the issue of permission was still under consideration.
The opposition party will also stage demonstrations in all the district headquarters today to press the same demand.
Yesterday, the BNP organised doa mahfils in mosques across the country after Juma prayers, seeking immediate recovery of Khaleda from various ailments.
On February 8, 2018, the BNP chief landed in the old Dhaka central jail after a lower court sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The High Court later doubled her jail term.
Khaleda was found guilty in another corruption case the same year. However, her party claimed that both the cases were politically motivated.The BNP chief, now facing about 36 cases, has been receiving treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University since April 1 last year.
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