Police detectives claimed to have recovered on Tuesday raw materials used to make bomb from the Chittagong office of the Liberal Democratic Party, an ally of the main opposition BNP.
The unassembled bomb components, including two kilograms of powdered iron, 12 rolls of black tape, half kg gunpowder and 30 empty cans of chewing tobacco, were found at LDP's Nandankanan office on Tuesday, Assistant Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch A K M Tanvir Arafat told .
The detectives broke locks to enter the offices of Chittagong district's north and south units of LDP around 11:15pm, he said.
"There was a plan to create anarchy," he said.
An LDP activist Idris Ali was detained from the area after the drive that followed a tip-off, Arafat said. "He used to man the office."
Earlier in the day, LDP President Oli Ahmed said at a discussion in Dhaka that the BNP-led 18-party alliance would 'finish a game started by the government'.
"The prime minister thinks that the game is over as cases have been filed. But the game is not over yet; it has just begun. We'll end the game," he said.
He said the cases against top opposition leaders over violence during a shutdown were baseless.
The LDP chief instead blamed the government for blasts during hartal hours.
"They (ruling Awami League) themselves exploded cocktail bombs and lodged cases against opposition leaders," he said.
A vehicle had been torched in front of the PMO and crude bombs were hurled at the Secretariat during the countrywide shutdown on Apr 29 protesting the 'disappearance' of one of the party's organising secretaries, M Ilias Ali.
Police had filed two cases at Tejgaon and Shahbagh accusing a number of top opposition leaders. The accused leaders are on bail now.
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Police detectives claimed to have recovered on Tuesday raw materials used to make bomb from the Chittagong office of the Liberal Democratic Party, an ally of the main opposition BNP.
The unassembled bomb components, including two kilograms of powdered iron, 12 rolls of black tape, half kg gunpowder and 30 empty cans of chewing tobacco, were found at LDP's Nandankanan office on Tuesday, Assistant Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch A K M Tanvir Arafat told .
The detectives broke locks to enter the offices of Chittagong district's north and south units of LDP around 11:15pm, he said.
"There was a plan to create anarchy," he said.
An LDP activist Idris Ali was detained from the area after the drive that followed a tip-off, Arafat said. "He used to man the office."
Earlier in the day, LDP President Oli Ahmed said at a discussion in Dhaka that the BNP-led 18-party alliance would 'finish a game started by the government'.
"The prime minister thinks that the game is over as cases have been filed. But the game is not over yet; it has just begun. We'll end the game," he said.
He said the cases against top opposition leaders over violence during a shutdown were baseless.
The LDP chief instead blamed the government for blasts during hartal hours.
"They (ruling Awami League) themselves exploded cocktail bombs and lodged cases against opposition leaders," he said.
A vehicle had been torched in front of the PMO and crude bombs were hurled at the Secretariat during the countrywide shutdown on Apr 29 protesting the 'disappearance' of one of the party's organising secretaries, M Ilias Ali.
Police had filed two cases at Tejgaon and Shahbagh accusing a number of top opposition leaders. The accused leaders are on bail now.
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will participate in the 'road march' programme of opposition BNP.
LDP president Oli Ahmed met BNP chief Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office on Saturday.
After the meeting, he told, "LDP will be participating in all the activities of BNP to overthrow the government."
Khaleda at a rally on Sept 27 announced that BNP would stage three road marches toward Sylhet, Rajshahi and Chittagong.
The one-and-a-half-hour meeting started at 8:45pm.
On Sept 28, the LDP president returned home after visiting the US and the UK.
He told after the meeting: "The present government has led the country to devastation. They have ruined the country's economy. People have already suffered a lot.
"So, under Khaleda Zia's leadership, we will start movement against the present government. In the meeting we have discussed all-out efforts to make the anti-government movement a success."
The first meeting between the heads of two the parties was held at Khaleda's Gulshan residence, just before last Ramadan.
After that meeting, Oli officially announced to be with BNP in all the anti-government activities.
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has decided to join all anti-government movements of opposition BNP.
President Oli Ahmed, who is now in the US, in a statement Monday night directed the leaders and activists of his party to attend Tuesday rally of Khaleda Zia.
In the statement, signed by party joint-secretary general Shahadat Hossain Selim, Oli said from Tuesday, LDP will join all the anti-government programmes announced by the BNP chairperson.
BNP is scheduled to hold a rally the road in front of its Naya Paltan headquarters in the city where Khaleda is set to spell out fresh agitation programmes for realising its demands including restoration of caretaker government system for holding general elections.
Oli said: "The people want freedom from the misrule. There is no rule of law in the country."
BNP has recently initiated a move to bring like-minded political parties together for launching a movement especially for reinstating the caretaker government system.
Oli, a founding member of BNP, left the party along with 13 other BNP lawmakers and floated LDP on Oct 26 in 2006, a day before the then BNP government completed its tenure. He blamed the BNP leadership for corruption and misrule.
LDP later sided with the Awami League but contested the general elections separately and won one parliamentary seat.