BNP has alleged that the ruling Awami League 'cadres' have stabbed former Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka in police custody.
Acting secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with the charge at a media call on Sunday afternoon at the party's head office at Naya Paltan.
"Awami League's 'hooligans' stabbed Khoka while he was being taken to detective police's office after arresting him from old Dhaka's Dholaikhal area. He was stabbed in the left leg," he said.
Alamgir also announced that BNP would hold fresh demonstration on Monday in the capital protesting against the incident that took place amidst the strike.
He said the demonstration would take place at 2:30pm in front of the party's head office and the next protest programme would be announced there against the government's decision to divide Dhaka City Corporation (DCC).
BNP enforced the dawn-to-dusk shutdown in the capital on Sunday to register its protest against DCC split which ended at 6pm.
Earlier in the day, Khoka was arrested from the court area in old Dhaka. However, police dropped Khoka, a BNP vice-chairman, off at his house in Gulshan within an hour of arrest saying he was taken into custody for his own safety.
BNP leaders had then said Khoka has taken admission at the United Hospital after he was hit and injured by stones hurled by pro-government Bangladesh Chhatra League activists.
Professor of surgery Abu Sayeed M M Rahman, who is overseeing Khoka at the hospital, said Khoka bore injury marks in the lower left thigh.
"We are assessing the injury," he told when asked whether the injury was because of stabbing as alleged by BNP.
"Even he (Khoka) cannot say how he received the injury," the doctor replied.
Alamgir at the briefing demanded immediate arrest and punishment to the attackers of the BNP metropolitan unit convenor Khoka and said, "This attack is an attack on democracy."
Claiming police admitted 'critically wounded Khoka at the United Hospital', he said, "We are condemning this inhuman disgusting incident."
The acting secretary general added that Khoka was under observation of Prof Sayeed at the private hospital in Gulshan.
He also condemned the attack on labour wing Jatiyatabdi Sramik Dal's metropolitan unit president Nurul Islam Khan Nasim by ruling party 'hoodlums'.
Alamgir claimed at least 250 party leaders-activists were arrested including Nasim, former MP Abul Kalam Azad Siddiqui and several presidents and general secretaries of the affiliated organisations.
He slated the government's 'repressive policy', saying, "Police have arrested our activists from different points of the city amid the peaceful hartal and filed false cases against them. We demand their immediate release and withdrawal of those cases."
'SELLING COUNTRY'
The BNP leader also criticised prime minister Sheikh Hasina for "condoning injustice and unlawful activities just to stay in power forever". [She is] implementing plans one by one against the people interest."
"She is not even hesitating before selling the country for this," Alamgir alleged and criticised the government's 'subservient' foreign policy.
SPLIT DCC ELECTIONS
The BNP spokesman the planned elections in the two parts of the newly divided Dhaka City Corporation as 'premeditated drama of the government'.
"I heard that the Local Government Division has sent a letter to Election Commission to hold the elections. But the Commission has said it's impossible to give the polls within 90 days.
"Which proves it's a drama planned by the government," Alamgir added.
DCC was divided into two separate administrative bodies — north and south, through a bill passed in parliament on Nov 29. The president on Thursday signed it into a law.
The government wrote to the EC asking it to hold mayoral elections within 90 days after Sunday's appointment of two administrators. According to the law, elections must be held within 90 days after the appointment. The interim administrators are to hold the fort until then.
However, two election commissioners have said it was impossible to hold elections by this time as the current commission has barely two and a half months to the end of its term.
Alamgir on Sunday claimed that the appointment of the administrators is 'against the constitution".
"The government hurried through the formalities of passing the bill and appointing the administrators overlooking public opinion. The government has violated the constitution's fundamentals by appointing unelected administrators to an electedl organisation."
Acting secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with the charge at a media call on Sunday afternoon at the party's head office at Naya Paltan.
"Awami League's 'hooligans' stabbed Khoka while he was being taken to detective police's office after arresting him from old Dhaka's Dholaikhal area. He was stabbed in the left leg," he said.
Alamgir also announced that BNP would hold fresh demonstration on Monday in the capital protesting against the incident that took place amidst the strike.
He said the demonstration would take place at 2:30pm in front of the party's head office and the next protest programme would be announced there against the government's decision to divide Dhaka City Corporation (DCC).
BNP enforced the dawn-to-dusk shutdown in the capital on Sunday to register its protest against DCC split which ended at 6pm.
Earlier in the day, Khoka was arrested from the court area in old Dhaka. However, police dropped Khoka, a BNP vice-chairman, off at his house in Gulshan within an hour of arrest saying he was taken into custody for his own safety.
BNP leaders had then said Khoka has taken admission at the United Hospital after he was hit and injured by stones hurled by pro-government Bangladesh Chhatra League activists.
Professor of surgery Abu Sayeed M M Rahman, who is overseeing Khoka at the hospital, said Khoka bore injury marks in the lower left thigh.
"We are assessing the injury," he told when asked whether the injury was because of stabbing as alleged by BNP.
"Even he (Khoka) cannot say how he received the injury," the doctor replied.
Alamgir at the briefing demanded immediate arrest and punishment to the attackers of the BNP metropolitan unit convenor Khoka and said, "This attack is an attack on democracy."
Claiming police admitted 'critically wounded Khoka at the United Hospital', he said, "We are condemning this inhuman disgusting incident."
The acting secretary general added that Khoka was under observation of Prof Sayeed at the private hospital in Gulshan.
He also condemned the attack on labour wing Jatiyatabdi Sramik Dal's metropolitan unit president Nurul Islam Khan Nasim by ruling party 'hoodlums'.
Alamgir claimed at least 250 party leaders-activists were arrested including Nasim, former MP Abul Kalam Azad Siddiqui and several presidents and general secretaries of the affiliated organisations.
He slated the government's 'repressive policy', saying, "Police have arrested our activists from different points of the city amid the peaceful hartal and filed false cases against them. We demand their immediate release and withdrawal of those cases."
'SELLING COUNTRY'
The BNP leader also criticised prime minister Sheikh Hasina for "condoning injustice and unlawful activities just to stay in power forever". [She is] implementing plans one by one against the people interest."
"She is not even hesitating before selling the country for this," Alamgir alleged and criticised the government's 'subservient' foreign policy.
SPLIT DCC ELECTIONS
The BNP spokesman the planned elections in the two parts of the newly divided Dhaka City Corporation as 'premeditated drama of the government'.
"I heard that the Local Government Division has sent a letter to Election Commission to hold the elections. But the Commission has said it's impossible to give the polls within 90 days.
"Which proves it's a drama planned by the government," Alamgir added.
DCC was divided into two separate administrative bodies — north and south, through a bill passed in parliament on Nov 29. The president on Thursday signed it into a law.
The government wrote to the EC asking it to hold mayoral elections within 90 days after Sunday's appointment of two administrators. According to the law, elections must be held within 90 days after the appointment. The interim administrators are to hold the fort until then.
However, two election commissioners have said it was impossible to hold elections by this time as the current commission has barely two and a half months to the end of its term.
Alamgir on Sunday claimed that the appointment of the administrators is 'against the constitution".
"The government hurried through the formalities of passing the bill and appointing the administrators overlooking public opinion. The government has violated the constitution's fundamentals by appointing unelected administrators to an electedl organisation."
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