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Hartal Tomorrow

BNP, Jamaat lend support

Staff Correspondent
BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday announced a two-day fresh agitation programme including a mass hunger strike protesting the arrest of opposition activists and “attempt to kill” the opposition chief whip during the 48-hour hartal.
As part of the programme, both the parties will stage anti-government demonstrations across the country today. BNP will arrange the agitatation in front of the party's central office at Nayapaltan.
The BNP-led oppostion also extended “full support” for the 30-hour hartal called by a 12-party alliance to be enforced from 6:00am on Sunday.
The countrywide shutdown was called in protest
against the dropping of the phrase "absolute faith in Allah” from the constitution.
Announcing the BNP programme, acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the party will stage a hunger strike at capital's Engineers' Institution from 10:00am to 4:00pm on July 13.
He urged the people and like-minded parties to join the hunger strike.
It will be BNP's first such programme since the Awami League-led grand alliance took office in January 2009.
Asked as to why they support the 12-party shutdown, Alamgir told reporters that it is because their demands are similar to those of the four-party alliance.
Jamaat leaders will be fasting instead of observing a hunger strike on July 13.
At a separate press breifing at party's Moghbazar office, Jamaat acting Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam called on the countrymen to fast that day.
BNP and its allies observed a 48-hour hartal on July 6 and 7 protesting against scrapping of caretaker government system and "hurting” the religious sentiment of the people through the fifteenth amendment to the constituion passed in parliament on June 30.
On Wednesday, the first day of the shutudown, law enforcers assaulted Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque following an altercation with him at city's Manik Mia Avenue.
Late that night, police also filed a case against 10 to 12 people including Abdin on charges of attacking the law enforcers but refused to record a case from BNP against the police members who severely beat him up.
Abdin's lawyer Mahbub Uddin Khokon, also a BNP lawmaker, will file a case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court on Sunday against the law enforcers who attacked him.
He said he will go to the
High Court to secure an anticipatory bail in connection with the police case againstAbdin.
As of last night, Abdin, also a BNP MP, was being treated at the Intensive Care Unit of United Hospital in the city. Mirza Fakhrul on Wednesday said he needed 11 stitches in his head but it could not be verified from the hospital authorities.
BNP lawmaker Asifa Ashrafi Papia told The Daily Star last night that they will send him abroad for treatmen after he gets bail from the court. BNP has obtained permission from the House speaker in this regard.
KHALEDA VISITS ABDIN BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday visited Zainul Abdin Farroque at United Hospital where he was being treated. She also enquired about his treatment.
Party's acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, lawmakers ABM Ashraf Uddin Nizan, Nazim Uddin Ahmed and Mojaher Ali Pradhan also accompanied the BNP chief.