Police have barred former president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury from seeing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is staying at her office surrounded by law enforcers.
Published : 08 Jan 2015, 11:01 PM
Obstructed in front of Khaleda’s office at Dhaka’s Gulshan on Thursday evening, Chowdhury shouted at police and then left the place.
Chowdhury, BNP’s founding secretary general and the present Bikalpadhara Bangladesh (BDB) chief, had made another futile effort to meet Khaleda on Sunday. Police did not let him go inside the office.
Police unlocked the main gate of the office around 11:50am on Thursday, after keeping Khaleda in confinement for five days, but members of law enforcement agencies were still deployed around the office.
Chowdhury found the road near Khaleda’s office barricaded by water cannons.
He shouted from inside the car: “What sort of incivility is this? Defamation should know its limit. These vehicles have to be taken off. I’m giving you one-minute time. If these vehicles are not removed, I’ll leave this place.”
The former president called the police personnel deployed on the road, but they did not respond.
Raising a hand, he said: “Come on. Which police officer is here? Come here. I’m giving you one minute.”
He left the place, no police personnel responded to his call, he left the place.
Before leaving, Chowdhury told journalists: “I’m a former president. I had come here on Sunday too. They (police) had done the same.”
“I’m a senior citizen, I’m a physician. I came here as a physician.”
Journalist leaders meet Khaleda
A delegation of pro-BNP journalists met Khaleda on Thursday night.
President of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists Shaukat Mahmud and Secretary General MA Aziz, Dhaka Union of Journalist, President Abdul Hai Sikder and General Secretary Jahangir Alam Pradhan entered her office at around 8:15pm.
Coming out of the office, Mahmud told reporters: “The leader has said the blockade programme will continue... This movement to restore democracy will go on until the victory is achieved.”
To a question, he said: “It seems to us that that her mental strength has been stronger.”
Dhaka University former vice-chancellor Prof Anwarullah Chowdhury also saw Khaleda on Thursday night.