BNP’s mass rally today: Whether harmful things added to Khaleda’s food in jail?

Staff Reporter :

The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday said the people are anxious that if the government added anything harmful to the party chief Begum Khaleda Zia’s food in jail.
“No one in the country is safe under this autocratic government. Begum Khaleda Zia went to jail on foot with sound health condition but the government sent her back home on a wheelchair. Why such a thing happened?” Rizvi questioned while addressing a program marking Khaleda Zia’s 78th birthday at BNP’s Jinjira Bus Road Office in Keraniganj on Thursday.
“On August 14, the doctors who had demanded death penalty of the Islamic Scholar Allama Delawar Hossain Sayeedi were in charge of his medical treatment. So we’re afraid. Allama Sayeedi’s death is mysterious. Like that the government might not tolerate the most popular leader and the symbol of democracy and freedom of the country Begum Khaleda Zia,” said the BNP leader.
“This is proof of how cruel this government is. BNP will not participate in any election until this autocratic government resigns,” Rizvi said.
The BNP leader also said Sheikh Hasina will have to resign before the election and BNP will join the polls if it is held under a non-party caretaker government by dissolving the parliament.
Dhaka District BNP President Khandaker Abu Ashfaq presided over the meeting while its General Secretary Advocate Nipun Roy Chowdhury moderated it. Shyamal Biswas, Rezaul Kabir Paul and Haji Masum, among other leaders, spoke on the occasion.
Then the party leaders distributed leaflets among the people as part of the party’s nationwide programme.
Mass rally today: BNP and its allies will hold mass rally simultaneously in all city corporations including Dhaka to press home their one point demand.
BNP Dhaka city south unit will hold the mass rally at 3:00 pm from Dayagonj intersection to Khilgaon Avenue via Kamalapur stadium. Besides, Dhaka north unit BNP will arrange the programme at the same time from Gulshan-2’s DCC market to Mohakhali bus terminal via Gulshan-1.