Raid at AL leader’s house eyewash: BNP

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today termed “belated” drive of law enforcers at Narayanganj Awami League leader Nur Hossain’s residence as “eyewash”.
“Law enforcers conducted the drive at Nur Hossain’s residence a week after the abduction of seven persons from Narayanganj, which has raised questions among people,” the BNP leaders said.
“People think that the drive has been conducted to save the main culprits,” he said.
Fakhrul was addressing party leaders and activists, who joined a mass hunger strike in front of Jatira Press Club in the capital.
BNP organised the mass hunger strike to protest what it said “false cases” against the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman and the incidents of abduction, killing and forced disappearance across the country.
Some 150 leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies began the hunger strike at 9:00am, which will continue till 5:000pm.
BNP chief is scheduled to join the programme at 4:00pm.
Vehicular movement on the road in front of the press club is normal as the activists are carrying out their programme peacefully on the club premises.
Earlier, on April 25, BNP announced that it would hold protest rallies on April 28 and mass hunger strikes on May 4 at all upazila, district and divisional headquarters protesting the cases filed by Anti-Corruption Commission.