BNP won’t join JS keeping 18-party leaders behind bars: Farroque
Dhaka, May 27 (UNB) - Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque has said BNP and its allies would not join the budget session beginning at 5:30 pm today (Sunday) keeping the top leaders of the 18-party alliance in jail.
“How will we join the parliament session keeping our colleagues behind bars?” he said while addressing a human chain in front of the National Press Club on Sunday.
Bangladesh Combined Professional Association, a pro-BNP professional forum, organised the human chain protesting at the filing of a case against lawyers and demanding release of the top leaders of BNP-led 18-party alliance.
BNP lawmakers MK Anwar, Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie and Barrister Mahbubuddin Khokon, LDP president Col (retd) Oli Ahmad MP and BJP chairman Andalib Rahman Partho MP have been sent to jail in a case filed for torching a bus near the Prime Minister’s Office during the opposition’s hartal on April 29.
Addressing another human chain at the same venue, BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan urged the government to take initiatives for discussion by creating congenial atmosphere to resolve the present problems, promising all-out cooperation from BNP.
Meanwhile, family members of the arrested 18-party alliance leaders at a press conference at the National Press Club today expressed concern over the condition of their near and dear ones in jail.
Reading out a written statement on behalf of the families, Nahid Hannan, wife of Brig Gen (retd) Hannan Shah, said the opposition leaders are passing days amid sufferings in jail.
She alleged that many of them have become sick as they were not provided with proper treatment.
Nahid Hannan said they are waiting to get back their near and dear ones.
“How will we join the parliament session keeping our colleagues behind bars?” he said while addressing a human chain in front of the National Press Club on Sunday.
Bangladesh Combined Professional Association, a pro-BNP professional forum, organised the human chain protesting at the filing of a case against lawyers and demanding release of the top leaders of BNP-led 18-party alliance.
BNP lawmakers MK Anwar, Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie and Barrister Mahbubuddin Khokon, LDP president Col (retd) Oli Ahmad MP and BJP chairman Andalib Rahman Partho MP have been sent to jail in a case filed for torching a bus near the Prime Minister’s Office during the opposition’s hartal on April 29.
Addressing another human chain at the same venue, BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan urged the government to take initiatives for discussion by creating congenial atmosphere to resolve the present problems, promising all-out cooperation from BNP.
Meanwhile, family members of the arrested 18-party alliance leaders at a press conference at the National Press Club today expressed concern over the condition of their near and dear ones in jail.
Reading out a written statement on behalf of the families, Nahid Hannan, wife of Brig Gen (retd) Hannan Shah, said the opposition leaders are passing days amid sufferings in jail.
She alleged that many of them have become sick as they were not provided with proper treatment.
Nahid Hannan said they are waiting to get back their near and dear ones.
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