BNP reopens central office after 75 days

Bangladesh Nationalist Party's (BNP) central office in Dhaka's Nayapaltan was reopened on Thursday morning, nearly two and a half months after closure following clashes with police during the party's grand rally on October 28, 2023, reports UNB.

Some BNP leaders and activists, led by the party's Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, unlocked the collapsible gate of the office around 10:42 am.

They entered the office while shouting various slogans in the name of party founder Ziaur Rahman and Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

"We entered BNP's central office by breaking the lock. A massive rally was foiled through a brutal crackdown by the government's subservient law-enforcement agencies on October 28…later police locked the office," said Rizvi.

He said BNP's standing committee members, led by Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, will hold a press conference - on the national election held on January 7 - at the office at 3 pm.

The BNP leader said they will now clean the office for holding the press meet.