Tag: Naya Paltan
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BNP’s Nayapaltan office still locked, offices open only in 8 districts
It is learned that 65 offices of BNP’s 80 organizational districts are apparently closed. Party leaders said there is no option to keep party offices open as leaders active at the central, district and union levels have gone into hiding fearing arrest. BNP’s Chattogram city office is located at Naseeman Bhawan in Kazir Deori. It…
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BNP Vice President Altaf Hussain Chaudhary sent to jail
Earlier, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) had arrested the BNP leader from Tongi in Ghazipur, a message from the RAB media wing said on Sunday morning. Altaf Hussain’s lawyer Taherul Islam said he was arrested in a case registered at the Ramna police station in connection with the attack on the Chief Justice’s residence on…
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Leaders like me will be destroyed: Mirza Abbas in court
Mirza Abbas also said, “Honourable Court, I have made these statements for future reference. I do not want to predict what might happen, but the nation could potentially find itself without effective leadership.” Earlier, Mirza Abbas’s lawyer Mosleh Uddin Jasim had filed a complaint in the court regarding wrongly stating the age of Mirza Abbas…
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BNP’s new platoon headquarters is now a ‘crime scene’
BNP’s new platoon headquarters is now a ‘crime scene’
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BNP men start gathering at Naya Paltan
BNP sought permission to hold the rally in Naya Paltan, but police asked them to avoid roads and select a ground or any other open space for the rally. In response, the BNP refused to change the venue and insisted on holding the rally at the party office premises. However, the police also remained firm…
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Mirza Fakhrul wants to ‘wait till the last moment’ for rally permit
There is no positive response from the police yet regarding whether BNP can hold its scheduled grand rally in front of the party’s central office in Naya Paltan. In response, party general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told journalists that they would wait till the last moment. After that the party will take its final…
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BNP gets police permission for protest in Naya Paltan
The police have given the opposition BNP the go-ahead to stage a sit-in outside its Naya Paltan headquarters on January 11. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Khandekar Ghulam Farooq said on Tuesday that he had given permission on the condition that the protest program would not disrupt traffic on the road. Earlier, the police had refused…
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High Court grants bail to BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul, Abbas
BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Mirza Abbas have been granted bail by the High Court in connection with last month’s violent clashes outside the party headquarters in Naya Paltan, Dhaka. A panel of Justice Mohammad Saleem and Justice Riyaz Uddin Khan on Tuesday granted him interim bail for six…
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BNP claims Rs 5 lakh damage caused by vandalism during raid on party office
Khandekar Musharraf Hussain, a member of the BNP’s Standing Committee, has said that the party’s Naya Paltan central office was vandalized and looted, causing a loss of Taka 5 million. Khandekar Musharraf disclosed the details of the damage at a press conference at the political office of the BNP president in the capital’s Gulshan on…
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BNP’s mass rally in Dhaka has been postponed till December 30.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has decided to postpone its mass march to 30 December due to the Awami League rally scheduled for 24 December. But the party will organize mass processions in other cities and districts across the country on December 24, Nazrul Islam Khan, a member of the BNP’s Standing Committee, said at a…
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Writ petition seeking partition for Mirza Fakhrul, Mirza Abbas
In the early hours of Friday, a team of the Detective Branch (DB) of the police picked up Mirza Fakhrul and Mirza Abbas from their homes in separate raids in the capital city. He was later shown arrested in connection with the clash between police and party workers in Naya Paltan area of the capital.…
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BNP’s Fakhrul to file petition in High Court for first class privileges in Abbas Jail
Lawyers representing the arrested BNP leaders, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas, will file a writ petition in the High Court against the prison authorities for denying the leaders first-class division facilities in the prison. Zainul Abedin Mesbah and Mohiuddin Chowdhury said they would file the petition on Tuesday. “The order of division…
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Government sent letter to foreign missions regarding arrest of Fakhrul, Abbas, Naya Paltan incident
The government has sent letters to foreign missions in Dhaka explaining the reasons for arresting Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, general secretary of the opposition BNP, and Mirza Abbas, a member of its standing committee. The letter also explained the reasons for the clash between the police and the leaders and workers of the opposition Bangladesh…
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BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul, Abbas denied bail in Naya Paltan controversy
BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas will remain in jail after a Dhaka court rejected their bail pleas for inciting the attack on police in Naya Paltan. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shafi Uddin rejected the bail applications of Mirza Fakhrul, Abbas and 222 other BNP leaders and workers in a hearing on Monday.…
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BNP’s Dhaka rally ends, political violence worries ease
Most of the demands are not new. Some of the key demands are: resignation of the government by dissolution of parliament, formation of a new election commission and a caretaker government to oversee the next general election in line with the constitutional amendment brought in in 1996, and Khaleda’s release. The BNP wants to amend…