Half-day hartal called in Sylhet today
BNP backed Jatiyatabadi Swechhasebak Dal called a half-day hartal today in Sylhet protesting a Dhaka court's verdict which sent the party's vice president to jail in connection with an abduction case.
Swechhasebak Dal's Vice President Shamsuzzaman Zaman's bail was cancelled yesterday and he was sent to jail.
Princila Parvin Pinki, wife of Sylhet Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal Joint Secretary Iftekhar Ahmed Dinar, filed the case accusing Zaman and others of kidnapping her husband who went missing on April 1.
However, district and city unit BNP will not support the hartal as they have been organising programmes separately for the last four months.
Contacted, Nasim Hossain, BNP's senior vice president, said they were not involved in the decision made to call the hartal.
Meanwhile, Biswanath upazila unit BNP President Jalal Uddin was released on bail yesterday in a case filed against him for vandalising vehicles during hartal hours on April 23.
On the day, three opposition men were killed in the clashes between BNP and police.
Three cases were filed against 8,000 BNP men in connection with the violence carried out during the hartal, called after the disappearance of BNP leader M Ilias Ali.
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