Police have detained BNP’s National Executive Committee members Onindo Islam Omit and Obaidul Haque Nasir in Dhaka, according to party sources.
They were detained on Tuesday night, said the party’s press wing staff Sairul Kabir Khan.
On the same night around 10pm, police detained BNP Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy while he was returning home following a meeting with party chief Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office.
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Their detention came hours after BNP’s activists and leaders attacked law enforcement officials and snatched two of their peers from a prison van near the High Court when Khaleda appeared before a special court in Bakshibazar area for the ongoing trial of the Zia Charitable Trust graft case.
They also broke two police rifles when law enforcement officials tried to resist the demonstrators, according to police.
Party insiders said Nasir was one the two snatched from police custody.
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Addressing an emergency press briefing following their detention, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the leaders were arrested at a time when people were taking “preparations to resist a conspiracy by the government” against their leader Khaleda Zia.
The top BNP leader also alleged that the government already instructed police to harass and arrest leaders and activists as a last resort to stay in power.
Rizvi warned that the government would not be able to spread panic among BNP men across the country by arresting them.
He also alleged that police started raiding the house of Swechchhasebak Dal President Shafiul Bari Babu.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
