Home minister Shahara Khatun on Saturday asked the leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League and grand alliance partners to stay alert and prevent any chaotic situation created by the opposition party during their general strike called for Sunday and Monday.
"Whoever tries to torch vehicles to create chaos in the name of hartal should be stopped right there," she said at a programme organised to hand over two new vehicles to Adabar Police Station in the city. She said the government and the law-enforcers are not enough to prevent 'all kinds of anarchy'. "That's why leaders and activists [of the parties] will have to be on the streets besides the law-enforcers to maintain law and order."
Leader of the opposition and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday set the deadline for 'returning' the missing organising secretary M Ilias Ali by Saturday after countrywide shutdowns for three consecutive days. Saying law-enforcers are trying to find out Ilias, Shahara on Saturday said, "We had asked for the opposition's assistance in this regard, but they did not help."
"The opposition has been enforcing general strike continuously over the issue of Ilias Ali's disappearance. They are doing this only to create anarchy in the country," she claimed. Ilias Ali, also the party's Sylhet chapter chief, and his driver Ansar Ali went missing at around midnight on Apr 17. Police found Ilias's abandoned car and mobile phone at a street in the capital's Mohakhali near his Banani residence. There has been no trace of Ali or his driver ever since. The Rapid Action Battalion has conducted raids at several places in Gazipur's Pubail and Dhaka in the last 10 days to find Ilias, but to no avail.
"Whoever tries to torch vehicles to create chaos in the name of hartal should be stopped right there," she said at a programme organised to hand over two new vehicles to Adabar Police Station in the city. She said the government and the law-enforcers are not enough to prevent 'all kinds of anarchy'. "That's why leaders and activists [of the parties] will have to be on the streets besides the law-enforcers to maintain law and order."
Leader of the opposition and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday set the deadline for 'returning' the missing organising secretary M Ilias Ali by Saturday after countrywide shutdowns for three consecutive days. Saying law-enforcers are trying to find out Ilias, Shahara on Saturday said, "We had asked for the opposition's assistance in this regard, but they did not help."
"The opposition has been enforcing general strike continuously over the issue of Ilias Ali's disappearance. They are doing this only to create anarchy in the country," she claimed. Ilias Ali, also the party's Sylhet chapter chief, and his driver Ansar Ali went missing at around midnight on Apr 17. Police found Ilias's abandoned car and mobile phone at a street in the capital's Mohakhali near his Banani residence. There has been no trace of Ali or his driver ever since. The Rapid Action Battalion has conducted raids at several places in Gazipur's Pubail and Dhaka in the last 10 days to find Ilias, but to no avail.
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