BNP reiterates demand for leaders release

BNP chairperson's adviser Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Wednesday reiterated the demand of releasing all opposition men including its top leaders and withdrawing of "false" cases against them.

Strongly criticising the courts’ decision to send the BNP leaders to jail Dudu threatened to go for tougher movement if their demands were not met immediately.

Dudu, also a former lawmaker, said this while addressing a press briefing at BNP Nayapaltan office in the capital after a 36-hours hartal (shutdown).

Claiming that over 200 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations were arrested and 276 injured on the second day of hartal across the country, Dudu also demanded reinstating the caretaker government system and immediate resignation of the government.

BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance called the countrywide hartal from Tuesday after eight of its top leaders were sent to jail in different cases on April 7.