Police
arrested four women lawmakers of the BNP from in front of the party’s
Nayapaltan headquarters in the city as a shutdown disrupts normal life
in the capital as well as elsewhere in the country.
Pickets vandalised and set fire to several vehicles and blasted cocktails in different parts of Dhaka to enforce a daylong hartal (shutdown) called by main opposition BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami.
Number of vehicles on Dhaka streets however was more than the previous shutdowns though very few private cars were seen plying the city streets. Rickshaws were seen plying on almost all of the thoroughfares.
Despite pre-hartal violence the previous evening, people of different walks of life came out to the streets on Thursday to attend their offices.
Garment factories and other businesses in the city remained open. Most of the shops kept their shutters down in the morning.
Some schools and colleges remained open defying the hartal. But presence of students was very thin.
NAYAPALTAN
Four BNP lawmakers including Ashfia Ashrafi Papia and Shammi Akhter were detained from in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office around 10:30am.
Police picked them up and took them to the office of Detective Branch of police on Minto Road, said Mehedi Hassan, additional deputy commissioner, Motijheel Zone.
Two other lawmakers are Rasheda Begum Hira and Rehana Akhter Ranu.
The ADC said the lawmakers started demonstration sitting on the road around 10:15am after they found the main gate of the party office locked from inside.
Police asked them to free the road as their sit-in was disturbing vehicular movements in the area, he said.
As they continued their demonstration defying police request, the law enforcers picked them up 15 minutes later, he added.
Shammi started brawling with policemen when they were pushed inside the police microbus. She fell off the vehicle along with a lady constable.
Constable Sharifa was sent to Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital.
Soon after the detention, Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque talked to media and criticised the police action.
Two cocktails were exploded around 12:30pm near Jonaki Cinema Hall at Paltan.
Pickets vandalised and set fire to several vehicles and blasted cocktails in different parts of Dhaka to enforce a daylong hartal (shutdown) called by main opposition BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami.
Number of vehicles on Dhaka streets however was more than the previous shutdowns though very few private cars were seen plying the city streets. Rickshaws were seen plying on almost all of the thoroughfares.
Despite pre-hartal violence the previous evening, people of different walks of life came out to the streets on Thursday to attend their offices.
Garment factories and other businesses in the city remained open. Most of the shops kept their shutters down in the morning.
Some schools and colleges remained open defying the hartal. But presence of students was very thin.
NAYAPALTAN
Four BNP lawmakers including Ashfia Ashrafi Papia and Shammi Akhter were detained from in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office around 10:30am.
Police picked them up and took them to the office of Detective Branch of police on Minto Road, said Mehedi Hassan, additional deputy commissioner, Motijheel Zone.
Two other lawmakers are Rasheda Begum Hira and Rehana Akhter Ranu.
The ADC said the lawmakers started demonstration sitting on the road around 10:15am after they found the main gate of the party office locked from inside.
Police asked them to free the road as their sit-in was disturbing vehicular movements in the area, he said.
As they continued their demonstration defying police request, the law enforcers picked them up 15 minutes later, he added.
Shammi started brawling with policemen when they were pushed inside the police microbus. She fell off the vehicle along with a lady constable.
Constable Sharifa was sent to Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital.
Soon after the detention, Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque talked to media and criticised the police action.
Two cocktails were exploded around 12:30pm near Jonaki Cinema Hall at Paltan.
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