Kabir Humayun: BNP yesterday announced countrywide programmes demanding its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release from jail.
The party men will hold an hour-long human chain on September 8 and a two-hour long token hunger strike on September 12, reports Asian Age.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the announcement at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the city.
Human chains will be formed in all metropolitan cities and district towns from 11 am to 12 pm on September 8, he said.
In Dhaka, Rizvi said, the human chain programme will be held at Jatiya Press Club on the same day and time.
The party will observe a token hunger strike in all metropolitan cities and all district headquarters from 10 am 12 noon on September 12.
The BNP leader also said they had sought permission from the authorities of Mohanagar Natiya Moncho and the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh to get any one of the venues to hold their token hunger strike programme.
On February 8, a special court sentenced Khaleda to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
Khaleda, a 73-year-old former prime minister, was taken to the old central jail minutes after the verdict was delivered.
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