The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain said yesterday that the four-party alliance was not being allowed to hold political protests while there was no problem for the Awami League to hold similar programmes.

"They (AL leaders) are talking freely and holding programmes without any problem, but we are not allowed to do so," Delwar told reporters in front of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

Delwar went there with an intention to meet Tarique Rahman who suffered injuries after he slipped in a bathroom of the prison cell at BSMMU.

But the prisons authorities did not allow him to enter the hospital to see Tarique, a BNP leader and elder son of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Delwar repeated his demand for release of Khaleda and Tarique from jail. Otherwise, he said, they would gradually build a tough movement to realise their freedom.

Delwar asked all activists of the BNP-led alliance to make the planned human chain protest plans for August 27 a success.