DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage nationwide protest programme on Sunday protesting the government obstruction to their Thursday’s rally.

Party’s joint secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made announcement at a press conference at its Nayapaltan central office on Friday morning.

On Sunday, the party men will bring out protest processions in thanas of Dhaka city and districts across the country, he said. 

Rizvi alleged that Dhaka Metropolitan Police senior assistant commissioner (Ramna zone) Shibli Noman had threatened them of being disappeared, if they did not stop the rally.

“Member of law enforcing agencies and the people closed to the power holders are involved in murders and forced disappearances across the country,” Rizvi alleged.

General people became terrified of the godfathers and the ugly face of government has been unveiled through the killing incidents of Narayanganj and Feni, claimed the BNP leader.

He also expressed his concerns over submission of charge-sheet against the senior BNP leaders including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on charges of arson and vandalism.

BNP education affairs secretary Sanaullah Mian, assistant office secretary Abdul latif Joni, Mohila Dal general secretary Shirin Sultana, Khairul Kabir Khokon, Asadul Karim Shahin, among others, were present at the briefing.

On Thursday, police foiled BNP’s pre-scheduled rally at the auditorium of the Institution of Engineers Bangladesh, which police said the party had “no permission of the administration to hold the rally” there.

BNP planned to hold the rally in protest against killing, forced disappearance and kidnapping across the country.

BDST: 1135 HRS MAY 23, 2014