Mirza Abbas\\\' meet with disgruntled JCD leaders ends inconclusively

BNP leader Mirza Abbas' meeting with the disgruntled Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders who have been protesting against the new committee ended inconclusively, report agencies.
He spoke with the leaders who were left out of the new committee of the party's student affiliate, which was approved by BNP chief Khaleda Zia on October 14.
The meeting took place at his home in the capital's Shahjahanpur on Tuesday amid violent protests and fighting.
Police detained 20 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in front of BNP Nayapaltan central office and its nearby areas in the city Tuesday morning for their alleged involvement in subversive activities. Police said a team of Paltan Police Station launched drives at different points of Paltan, including Kakrail Nightangle crossing and Rajarbagh Police Hospital, and detained the 20 JCD men while they were going towards the BNP office staging a showdown in the morning.
Several teams of police were deployed in the areas since early morning, fearing that the new committee members of JCD might carry out subversive activities on their way to the party office.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged Tuesday that government agents unleashed violence in front of their party central office here Sunday as the police played the spectators' role.
The BNP spokesperson was addressing a commemorating meeting arranged by a faction of National Democratic Party (NDP), a component of the BNP-led 20-party alliance, in honour of late Language Movement veteran Abdul Matin, popularly known as Bhasha Matin.