Senior Joint Secretary General of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has commented that the crowd cannot be reduced by arrests.
He said that BNP central leader Ruhul Quddus Talukdar Dulu is a cancer patient and was dragged away by the detective police. The government is apprehensive about Wednesday's public rally, so it has been arresting central leaders along with various propaganda. At the time, he said, the flow of people in the upcoming public gathering cannot be stopped by making such arrests.
He said this in a press conference at the central office of BNP in Nayapaltan on Tuesday (October 17) night.
This BNP leader said that the police raided the residences in the capital and the residential hotels around the Nayapaltan office of the BNP and arrested the activists one after another. This is not desirable at all. Public gatherings cannot be held back by spreading fear like this.
He said, BNP organizing secretary Ruhul Quddus Talukdar Dulu, Tanti Dal central convenor Abul Kalam Azad, Gazipur District Swechchasebak Dal member secretary Ashraf Newaz Chowdhury Shaon, United Kingdom BNP Vice-President Golam Rabbani Sohel have been arrested by the police.
It is to be noted that BNP National Executive Committee organizing secretary and former minister Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu and Tanti Dal Central Committee convener Abul Kalam Azad have been detained by law enforcement forces.