Khaleda still remains confined

Police still stand guard in front of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's office at Gulshan in Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: STAR

On the fourth day of confinement, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia still cannot leave her Gulshan office with law enforcers still deployed in front of the main gate.

The main gate of her office still remains locked, our correspondent reports from the spot this morning.

The security in front of her office was seen slightly relaxed today.

Two lorries of policemen and the water canon remained stand there since Sunday midnight. But a dozen sand laden-trucks which were parked since the day have been taken away early yesterday.

Khaleda made her last-ditch effort to come out Monday afternoon by a car, but law enforcers locked all the gates.

Cops also used pepper spray to disperse the party leaders and activists waiting inside the gate on the day. Several journalists were injured in the police action there.

Protesting her confinement, Khaleda called an indefinite, countrywide blockade starting yesterday.

She wanted to go to the party's central office at Nayapaltan, where leaders and activists were asked to gather for holding a rally Monday to denounce the January 5 one-sided parliamentary election.

The opposition party, which boycotted the polls last year, dubs the day as the “Democracy Killing Day”.