TORCHING 3-WHEELER AT KAZIPARA
‘BNP didn’t get permission for failing to guarantee a peaceful rally’
Star Online Report
BNP
Chairperson Khaleda Zia can be arrested in connection with the torching
of a CNG-run three-wheeler at Kazipara in Dhaka on December 28,
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said today.
“The home ministry is mulling filing of a case against her regarding the matter,” the minister said at a press conference at the Secretariat this morning.
If a murder case can be filed against the contractor concerned for the death of four-year-old Jihad at Shahjahanpur Colony, a case can be also filed against the BNP chief in connection with the three-wheeler torching, said Inu.
The BNP chief, who remains confined to her Gulshan office in Dhaka, cannot go out as a large number of law enforcers still remain deployed in front of the main gate.
Though a dozen of brick and sand-laden trucks, which were parked since Sunday midnight near her office, have been taken away, the main gate still remains locked. But two lorries of policemen remained stand there since Sunday midnight.
The BNP chief made her last-ditch effort to come out yesterday afternoon by a car but law enforcers did not let her do so by blocking the entrance and using pepper spray on BNP leaders and activists who tried to force open the gate.
“Since announcing the January 5 rally, Khaleda Zia is delivering speech instigating her supporters to carry out anarchy. She has been kept refrained from further instigation,” Inu said at the briefing today.
Khaleda’s son Tarique Zia is also trying to create anarchy by instigating their followers through video speech, he alleged. “He instigated his followers to cut different parts of Dhaka from the others.”
“The BNP could not assure the government of a peaceful rally. This is why they were not given permission,” said the minister.
In the name of peaceful rally, “they were planning to create an abnormal situation”, he said.
Protesting her confinement in her Gulshan office and the locking of the party office by police, Khaleda called an indefinite, countrywide blockade from today.
“The home ministry is mulling filing of a case against her regarding the matter,” the minister said at a press conference at the Secretariat this morning.
If a murder case can be filed against the contractor concerned for the death of four-year-old Jihad at Shahjahanpur Colony, a case can be also filed against the BNP chief in connection with the three-wheeler torching, said Inu.
The BNP chief, who remains confined to her Gulshan office in Dhaka, cannot go out as a large number of law enforcers still remain deployed in front of the main gate.
Though a dozen of brick and sand-laden trucks, which were parked since Sunday midnight near her office, have been taken away, the main gate still remains locked. But two lorries of policemen remained stand there since Sunday midnight.
The BNP chief made her last-ditch effort to come out yesterday afternoon by a car but law enforcers did not let her do so by blocking the entrance and using pepper spray on BNP leaders and activists who tried to force open the gate.
“Since announcing the January 5 rally, Khaleda Zia is delivering speech instigating her supporters to carry out anarchy. She has been kept refrained from further instigation,” Inu said at the briefing today.
Khaleda’s son Tarique Zia is also trying to create anarchy by instigating their followers through video speech, he alleged. “He instigated his followers to cut different parts of Dhaka from the others.”
“The BNP could not assure the government of a peaceful rally. This is why they were not given permission,” said the minister.
In the name of peaceful rally, “they were planning to create an abnormal situation”, he said.
Protesting her confinement in her Gulshan office and the locking of the party office by police, Khaleda called an indefinite, countrywide blockade from today.
Published: 12:58 pm Tuesday, January 06, 2015
Last modified: 5:14 pm Tuesday, January 06, 2015
