Former and current BNP MPs will stage a token hunger strike for two hours on Saturday demanding release of arrested leaders and whereabouts of missing M Ilias Ali, a party statement said.
The statement signed by opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque said on Thursday that the programme would be held on the pavement of the Parliament's South Plaza from 10am.
Farroque told reporters at the party's headquarters, "Our current and former MPs will protest against the government's oppression and failures through the programme."
He said BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed would be present as the chief guest at the programme.
One of BNP's Organising Secretaries M Ilias Ali and his driver Ansar Ali has been missing since Apr 17 midnight. The opposition enforced five day-long shutdowns last month to press for his 'release' alleging that law enforcers picked up their leader.
On Wednesday, a Dhaka court ordered into jail BNP's Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 other leaders after refusing them bail in a case filed over charges of torching of a bus in front of the Prime Minister's Office during a shutdown on Apr 29.
The opposition alliance is enforcing a nationwide shutdown on Thursday protesting the court decision. Six buses and a taxi were torched in Dhaka in a spell of pre-hartal violence.
The statement signed by opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque said on Thursday that the programme would be held on the pavement of the Parliament's South Plaza from 10am.
Farroque told reporters at the party's headquarters, "Our current and former MPs will protest against the government's oppression and failures through the programme."
He said BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed would be present as the chief guest at the programme.
One of BNP's Organising Secretaries M Ilias Ali and his driver Ansar Ali has been missing since Apr 17 midnight. The opposition enforced five day-long shutdowns last month to press for his 'release' alleging that law enforcers picked up their leader.
On Wednesday, a Dhaka court ordered into jail BNP's Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 other leaders after refusing them bail in a case filed over charges of torching of a bus in front of the Prime Minister's Office during a shutdown on Apr 29.
The opposition alliance is enforcing a nationwide shutdown on Thursday protesting the court decision. Six buses and a taxi were torched in Dhaka in a spell of pre-hartal violence.
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