BNP claims successful hartal
Monday, 28 June 2010
Opposition BNP has claimed that the countrywide dawn-to-dusk strike was observed successfully with spontaneous public support.
"The nation observed the strike against the government's misrule," BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain told a press briefing at the party's Naya Paltan headquarters Sunday, reports bdnews24.com.
BNP had called the strike to press home its 11-point demand including solution of the utility crises and stoppage of tender manipulation, persecution of opposition leaders and workers, interference into the judicial system and politicisation of administration.
"People's spontaneous participation has proved that the hartal is hundred per cent successful," the BNP leader claimed.
He demanded unconditional release of the leaders and activists arrested during the strike.
Mr Delwar said according to the information they received so far from across country, the hartal was observed peacefully.
No long-distance buses plied the distant routes, including the Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Khulna.
The BNP leader condemned police activities. "Police barred our leaders and activists on the roads."
Mr Delwar said they protested against the government activities through the general strike one and a half year after it assumed office.
"But the Awami League had called a hartal within a month of the BNP-led four-party alliance government took power in 2001," he pointed out.
He also said that then in opposition, the Awami League had observed 173 days of general strike during the BNP regime's tenure between 2001 and 2006.
Meanwhile, at least 167 pro-hartal picket including Khaleda Zia's advisers Professor Abdul Mannan and Ahmed Azam Khan, were arrested Sunday in Dhaka.
BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas, lawmaker Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie and BNP Vice President and former foreign secretary Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury were also arrested.
"The nation observed the strike against the government's misrule," BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain told a press briefing at the party's Naya Paltan headquarters Sunday, reports bdnews24.com.
BNP had called the strike to press home its 11-point demand including solution of the utility crises and stoppage of tender manipulation, persecution of opposition leaders and workers, interference into the judicial system and politicisation of administration.
"People's spontaneous participation has proved that the hartal is hundred per cent successful," the BNP leader claimed.
He demanded unconditional release of the leaders and activists arrested during the strike.
Mr Delwar said according to the information they received so far from across country, the hartal was observed peacefully.
No long-distance buses plied the distant routes, including the Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Khulna.
The BNP leader condemned police activities. "Police barred our leaders and activists on the roads."
Mr Delwar said they protested against the government activities through the general strike one and a half year after it assumed office.
"But the Awami League had called a hartal within a month of the BNP-led four-party alliance government took power in 2001," he pointed out.
He also said that then in opposition, the Awami League had observed 173 days of general strike during the BNP regime's tenure between 2001 and 2006.
Meanwhile, at least 167 pro-hartal picket including Khaleda Zia's advisers Professor Abdul Mannan and Ahmed Azam Khan, were arrested Sunday in Dhaka.
BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas, lawmaker Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie and BNP Vice President and former foreign secretary Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury were also arrested.