Amid a huge police buildup, thousands of BNP supporters streamed into a key road and linked hands to form a human chain from the National Press Club to Topkhana Road. “Our peaceful protests will continue until the leader is released from jail,” Mirza Fakhrul told protesters, sending signals that the party would stay away from typical, often violent, shutdowns or road blockades. At Monday’s demonstration, the party made it clear that they will not take part in the national election with the party chief confined to jail. At a press conference at the party’s Naya Paltan headquarters after the demonstrations, Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said their programme in front of the National Press Club would continue from 11am to 12pm. Rizvi condemned the detention of Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu following the peaceful protests.

Source: bd News24 February 12, 2018 11:37 UTC