Police arrested six activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami from Mongla upazila of Bagerhat district on Sunday evening.
The arrestees are BNP's Mongla municipality unit Organizing Secretary Mahbubur Rahman Manik, BNP activists Shafiqul Sheikh, Zia Sheikh and upazila Jamaat activists Omar Farooq, Lutfar Amin and Mujahid Sheikh.
Mongla police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Monirul Islam said they were arrested from different areas of Mithakhali union in Mongla.
All of them were arrested in connection with a sabotage case, and all of them have been absconding till now, the OC added.
Bagerhat District BNP's joint convener, Dr Sheikh Faridul Islam, claimed that the BNP activists were arrested in a false case.
“We demand the immediate withdrawal of the case and their release,” he added.