BNP, Jamaat declare hartal in Ctg Sunday protesting arrest of Amir Khasru
BNP also announced hartal in Bhairab on the same day to protest the arrest of five BNP leaders along with Kishoreganj district BNP president Shariful Alam
The BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami have declared a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Chattogram for tomorrow (5 November) to protest the arrest and remand of BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and other BNP leaders.
Ambulances, fire trucks and vehicles carrying newspapers and journalists will remain out of the purview of the hartal, according to a BNP press release.
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Besides, the two-day nationwide blockade called by BNP on Sunday and Monday will also continue simultaneously in the port city.
On Friday, police arrested Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, who is also the chairman of BNP's International Affairs Committee, from his Gulshan residence at 1am.
A Dhaka court, on the same day, granted a six-day remand against Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury in a case filed over the killing of police constable Amirul Haque on 28 October.
Hartal in Bhairab
BNP also announced hartal in Bhairab on the same day to protest the arrest of five BNP leaders along with Kishoreganj district BNP president Shariful Alam.
Rafiqul Islam, president of Bhairab upazila BNP, said, "DB Police arrested five people including District BNP President Shariful Alam from a house in Kamalpur of Bhairab."
"However, there is no information about where the detainees have been taken. A strike will be held tomorrow in Bhairav to demand their release," he added.
Jamaat supports BNP's hartal in Ctg
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has expressed its full support for BNP's hartal in Chattogram tomorrow, it said in a press release.
"All the political prisoners including the top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP should be released immediately," reads the release.
