BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has held an emergency meeting with the party leaders to analyse the current political situation of the country and to devise the next course of action.
The meeting began at Khaleda’s Gulshan office around 7pm and continued till 8:30pm.
After the meeting, party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir briefed the media. He announced that the 20-party alliance called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Gazipur on Saturday, protesting the section 144 imposed in the district.
Gazipur district administration has imposed an indefinite ban on all gatherings from 2pm on Friday until further notice. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was scheduled to hold a meeting at Bhawal Badr-e-Alam College ground but Chhatra League also announced a rally on the same venue. In such a situation section 144 was imposed.
Earlier, BNP standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy was arrested in connection with the attack on ruling party lawmaker Chhabi Biswas on December 24.