The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

The leaders of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) yesterday warned that they would resist the upcoming general election if the government wanted to hold it keeping BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in jail.

They issued this warning at a press conference at the Dhaka University after failing to hold their scheduled discussion meeting at TSC marking the

Independence Day.

The leaders of JCD, student wing of BNP, said they would no longer request the Government for the release of the political detainees from jail as they would free them through movement.

Later, they held demonstration and paraded on the campus. JCD leaders Sultan Salah Uddin Tuku, Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel, Hasan Mamun, Saiful Islam Firoz, Mamun Rahman, Obaidul Haque Nasir, among others, took part in the demonstration.

JCD sources said that earlier they took permission from the administration to hold a discussion meeting ,but the officer in charge of Shahbagh Police Station made a call to them yesterday saying that they could hold the meeting excluding the BNP leaders. The police officer also threatened that they would arrest the JCD men who are not students of the university if came to the university.

Gayeshar Roy, Joint Secretary General of BNP, Major (Rtd) Akhteruzzaman were compelled to leave the campus while Dr R A Gani, Brigadier (Rtd) ASM Hannan Shah, Ruhul Kabir Rezvi Ahmed, Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon were not permitted to enter the campus, sources said.