Central leaders on Wednesday said they will decide protest programmes with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia after local leaders called for general strikes in some districts protesting detention of top opposition leaders in jail. A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered into jail BNP's Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 other leaders of the 18-Party Alliance after refusing them bail in an arson attack case.
In Thakurgaon, the home district of BNP spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul, the local chapter of BNP has called for indefinite general strike. Local BNP leaders called a daylong shutdown for Thursday in Chittagong, Sirajganj, Pabna, Joypurhat, Dinajpur and Bogra and more such programmes are incoming.
Police, meanwhile, have cordoned the headquarters of the BNP in Naya Paltan immediately after the court order. Several central leaders were already in the office but police were guarding at the main gate and allowing no supporters in. Four supporters were detained for trying to get into the office.
"We will set the next course of action after consulting madam (Khaleda)," BNP Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan told bdnews24.com. Apart from Khan, BNP Vice Chairman Abdullah Al Noman, Advisor to the Chairperson Fazlur Rahman Patal, Joint Secretary General Barkatullah Bulu and Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque, among others, were in the office.
They were assessing the situation in Mirza Fakhrul's office. Earlier in the day, Metropolitan Speedy Trial Magistrate Mohammad Erfan Ullah heard the bail petitions of the senior opposition leaders in a case filed over arson attack during a general strike which the party enforced in protest against disappearance of Organising Secretary M Ilias Ali.
In Thakurgaon, the home district of BNP spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul, the local chapter of BNP has called for indefinite general strike. Local BNP leaders called a daylong shutdown for Thursday in Chittagong, Sirajganj, Pabna, Joypurhat, Dinajpur and Bogra and more such programmes are incoming.
Police, meanwhile, have cordoned the headquarters of the BNP in Naya Paltan immediately after the court order. Several central leaders were already in the office but police were guarding at the main gate and allowing no supporters in. Four supporters were detained for trying to get into the office.
"We will set the next course of action after consulting madam (Khaleda)," BNP Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan told bdnews24.com. Apart from Khan, BNP Vice Chairman Abdullah Al Noman, Advisor to the Chairperson Fazlur Rahman Patal, Joint Secretary General Barkatullah Bulu and Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque, among others, were in the office.
They were assessing the situation in Mirza Fakhrul's office. Earlier in the day, Metropolitan Speedy Trial Magistrate Mohammad Erfan Ullah heard the bail petitions of the senior opposition leaders in a case filed over arson attack during a general strike which the party enforced in protest against disappearance of Organising Secretary M Ilias Ali.
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