Police looted, vandalised BNP HQ: Mosharraf

Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has alleged that the law enforcement forces and Awami League’s goons vandalised the party’s Nayapaltan central office and looted cash along with computers, laptops, important files and documents.
Even, they (law enforcers) have broken the party founder Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman’s mural.
The purpose of attack on December 7 and arrest of the party top leaders were to foil the December 10 rally in Dhaka.
 BNP’s standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said this during a press conference at its central office on Monday.
He also announced the programme that BNP will stage a demonstration in the capital on Tuesday protesting at the arrest of the party leaders and activists, including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the police action at their central office.
Besides, their party’s all city and district units will hold mass processions on the same day on the same ground as per their prescheduled programme announced from Golapbagh rally.
The protest programme will be held at 2:00pm in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office.
This would be BNP’s first programme in front of their central office after its closure following police raid at the office.
Earlier, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain visited different floors of the office along with party’s standing committee members.
The BNP’s senior leader termed the way the police and Awami League’s goons destroyed the furniture, looted and committed naked terror in the BNP central office during the month of victory as ‘unprecedented’.
Party Chairperson’s office is on the first floor of the office, which is remain closed, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said and added that you journalists have seen how it was broken, vandalised and looted.
“The third floor was also destroyed. Not only that, various materials including computers, laptops, files and important documents are taken away,” he alleged.
The offices of party’s student organisations on the fourth floor were also vandalised and computers, laptops, files and documents were also taken from there, he added.
“Everything was looted from the accounts office. BNP office has a library on the 6th floor and it was too not escaped from their brutality. Even Ziaur Rahman’s mural has also been broken,” Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said.
Police carried out the sudden attack on December 7, he claimed and said that the manner in which the attack was carried out was unprecedented in the world.
“We have no language to condemn the attack. Over 400 activists have been arrested including party’s senior leaders from the office. The main objective was to spoil the December 10 rally. BNP has carried out its programme as a moderate democratic party,” Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said.
When asked next course of action regarding looted assets, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain replied, “Our office just re-opened on Sunday and now we are preparing a list. Decision will be taken after discussion with senior leaders.”
Among others, Goyeswar Chandra Roy, Abdul Moiyeen Khan and Iqbal Hasan Tuku were present during the press briefing.
On Sunday noon, the central office at Nayapaltan was reopened after four days.
On December 7, a Swechchasebak Dal leader was killed and around 50 others were injured in a clash between police and the BNP activists in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office ahead of its December 10 rally.
On December 8, a Dhaka court sent 445 BNP leaders and activists, including Annie and Salam, to jail in two cases filed over the December 7 violence.
Besides, in the early hours of December 9, a team of Detective Branch of police picked up Mirza Fakhrul and standing committee member Mirza Abbas from their homes in separate raids in the capital city.
A Dhaka court sent Fakhrul and Abbas to jail rejecting their bail petitions in the case on the same day.
Later they were shown arrested in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act with Paltan Police Station over the clash.