BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday said the ongoing countrywide blockade would continue until further notice.
After leaving Apollo Hospitals on the sly early yesterday morning, he went to an unknown location to avoid police harassment. He was taken to hospital after police picked him up from the Nayapaltan office on Saturday night.
Messages were sent to some journalists yesterday, asking them to come to a specific place where Rizvi would be explaining why he left the hospital in a covert fashion and would talk about the ongoing agitations.
The journalists who received messages were mostly from the electronic media and one of them was from an online newspaper. Rizvi talked to them and also requested to pass his statement to journalists of other television channels and the print media.
Rizvi alleged the government had used members of the law enforcement agencies to spray pepper at BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office so that she died.
“Like the Nazis killed people in Germany inside a gas chamber, the government used pepper spray with the same intention. Our chairperson has been ill since then,” he said.
Rizvi condemned the incident and called on the people to resist the government’s evil plans. He also demanded immediate release of the party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
Earlier in 2013, before the January 5 elections, almost all the BNP leaders went into hiding to avoid police harassment and talked to the press from their hideouts.
When Rizvi was arrested, BNP Joint Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed issued a video message to the electronic media which drew flak at the time.