Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) has increased its patrol in trains and inter-district buses leaving the port city ahead of the BNP-called “March for Democracy” on December 29 to evade any untoward incidents.
Government Railway Police (GRP) members are patrolling in the trains while additional police forces searching every bus leaving the city for Dhaka, said police sources.
Banaz Kumar Majumder, additional commissioner (crime and operation) of the CMP, told Dhaka Tribune that they instructed bus owners to inform police if they found anything suspicious about passengers.
No restriction was imposed on opposition men leaving the city, he said.
Masudur Rahman, manager of the Hanif Enterprise, said they were asked to inform police in case of suspicious movement of passengers.
Meanwhile, police detained two persons from Chittagong Railway Station in the morning when they were going to the capital city to participate the December 29 rally in Dhaka, said Syed Yiasin Faruk, officer-in-charge of the GRP Outpost in Chittagong Railway Station.
Banaz, however, said the duo was detained as police had information that they had a plan to carry out sabotage.
The sources in the city unit of the BNP in Chittagong said about 20 thousand BNP leaders and activists would go to the capital to join the programme.
Abu Sufian, senior vice–president of the city unit of the BNP, claimed that the government with the assistance of administration is trying to bar opposition activists from joining the Dhaka rally.
“But we will join the rally at any cost,” he vowed.