The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

BNP will hold rallies on November 12 across the country to press for the release of party standing committee member M Saifur Rahman and Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ameer and Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujaheed, Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e- Islami.

The leaders of the four-party alliance were sent to jail in connection with Barapukuria coalmine corruption case yesterday.

"We will hold rallies in the capital and elsewhere in the country on November 12 to release our detained alliance leaders and realise seven-point demand," Khandker Delwar Hossain, Secretary General of BNP told the journalists after a meeting of the alliance.

BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia presided over the meeting at her office at Gulshan in the city that started at 8:30 pm and lasted around 9:00 pm yesterday night.

"Sending our leaders to jail by denying them bail is part of a conspiracy to keep the four-party alliance out of the parliamentary elections contest," he added.

Delwar urged the government to realise the seven-point demand immediately for the sake of holding free and fair election in the country.

Nazrul Islam Khan, Joint Secretary General of BNP, Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, Assistant Secretary General, Abdul Qader Mollah, Moulana Rafiqul Islam of Jammat, Barrister Andaliv Rahman, Chairman and Shamim Al Mamun, General Secretary of Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) and Moulana Abul Latif Nezami, General Secretary of Islami Oikkya Jote ,among others, were present during the meeting.