The ruling Awami League says it has no programmes for the day of the verdict on Khaleda Zia’s corruption trial but will be wide awake as the BNP is expected to burst into protests if she were to be convicted. As judgment will coincide with the SSC examinations, the people are worried over the rising political heat, and the anxiety was clear in Jatiya Party Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader’s comments. Speaking to reporters…
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by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The daily star, Feb 05, 2018 Saturday’s national executive committee meeting was a big morale boost for the BNP as it helped remove confusions and divisions within the party, say its senior leaders. At the meeting, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia called upon leaders and activists to remain united ahead of the next parliamentary elections. In response, fellow party men expressed absolute loyalty to her and said they would not participate…
report in The daily star, Feb 4, 2018 BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has asked her party leaders and activists to remain united ahead of the next parliamentary elections and not to make any imprudent decision or walk into any trap. “I am always with you and will be with you no matter wherever I am. Let’s face any type of upcoming danger together … we will work together in our good days as well,” she…
report in The daily star, Feb 4, 2018 Dhaka: Awami League General Secretary and Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said there is no need of declaring any programme centering the verdict of BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia’s graft case. “In view of their activities and statements, it seems that BNP want to create hit-up the political field centering the verdict of Zia Orphanage Corruption case…but we would not fall into the trap,”…
By Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd) in The daily star, Feb 2, 2018 The writger is Associate Editor, The Daily Star. February 8 may well dictate the course of the country’s politics with the national election round the corner. The verdict on a long-running graft case against the BNP chairperson is awaited with much anticipation and baited breath. Anticipated as much by the BNP and AL, the former hoping she would not…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Feb 2, 2018 BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to instruct her party leaders and activists tomorrow to prepare for the next parliamentary elections and also to be ready for a movement in case the government tries to hold one-sided polls “again”. She would come up with the instruction at the party’s national executive committee meeting to be held at a city hotel tomorrow, five days before…
by Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, Feb 1, 2018 at 01:40 PM Inspector General of Police Javed Patwari said the police will be on high alert with the February 8 verdict on Khaleda Zia’s graft case looming. This came in reply to a journalist’s query regarding the police’s position on the national election at a press conference at the Police Headquarters Media Center on Thursday. The IGP further said the Election Commission is responsible…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla, Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee and Jamil Khan in the Daily Star, Feb 1, 2018 The law enforcers as well as the BNP are highly cautious ahead of a Dhaka court’s verdict in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against Khaleda Zia on February 8. The ruling Awami League is also keeping an eye on the developments. The police headquarters have already instructed the police stations across the country to stay on alert…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Jan 31, 2018 at 9.50pm Detectives have allegedly picked up BNP Information Affairs Secretary Azizul Baree Helal from his Magbazar residence in Dhaka. Azizul, a former president of the party’s student front Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, was picked up on Wednesday around 8pm, claimed BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Meanwhile, five leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal have been detained from Dhaka the same day, according to BNP.…
by Fazlur Rahman Raju in Dhaka Tribune, Jan 31, 2018 at 9.50pm Leaders of Awami League-led 14-party alliance have expressed concern over the proposed Digital Security Act saying that the government should drop any controversial section of the act if it goes against the constitution and freedom of expression. The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of Digital Security Act 2018 keeping a similar provision to the controversial section 57 of Information and Communication Technology…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Jan 31, 2018 Police have detained BNP Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy from Gulshan area in Dhaka, according to BNP. He was picked up around 9:30pm yesterday while he was returning home following a meeting at BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office, said the party’s press wing staff, Shamsuddin Didar. Speaking to the Dhaka Tribune, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah confirmed that Gayeshwar was arrested on “specific” charges. His…