BNP submits memo to Dhaka DC

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Sunday submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Dhaka demanding the release of its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

The leaders and activists of BNP’s Dhaka district unit gathered around DC’s office at Old Dhaka and submitted the memorandum to DC Md. Salah Uddin around 11am.

BNP chairperson’s advisor Barrister Ziaur Rahman, president of BNP’s Dhaka district unit Doctor Dewan Salahuddin Babu, general secretary Khandakar Abu Ashfaq, organizing secretary Rezaul Karim Paul and joint secretary general Bodiuzzaman Bodi were present among others during this time.

BNP on Thursday announced a fresh round of peaceful countrywide protest programmes, including collecting signatures from mass people across the country on Saturday, submitting memorandums to all the deputy commissioner offices on Sunday and staging demonstrations in all the district towns and metropolitan cities, except Dhaka, on Tuesday.

A special court convicted former prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case on February 8 last. She was then sent to the old central jail at Nazimuddin Road in the city.