Bartabangla Report :: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Tuesday has said that government will have to pay a high price for Monday’s police action at the party’s headquarters.
“The government will have to pay a high price for police action at party’s central office and arrest senior leaders” he told an instant press conference at BNP’s central office at Nayapaltan in the afternoon.
The BNP spokesman also said under the pressure of public opinion, the government has been compelled to set us free.
He said his party’s policymakers’ decision to enforce shutdowns on March 18 and 19 will remain effective if the all other detained party men are not released by Thursday.
Terming the police raid and mass arrest of its leaders from the office of the country’s largest opposition party unprecedented, he said, “By this the government once again proved that they don’t believe in democracy. Instead, they’re destroying the democracy.”
Earlier, Fakhrul, city unit BNP convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka and vice chairman Altaf Hossain Chowdhury were released from the DB headquarters at Mintu Road around 12:55 pm.
Police in a raid on its Nayapaltan central office detained over 150 opposition ladders and workers on Monday evening.