
Two more leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Barkatullah Bulu’s son, and Bangladesh Jatiya Party chairman and former lawmaker Barrister Andaleeve Rahman Partho were arrested on Thursday.
In a statement on Thursday, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claimed that law enforcers picked up Barrister Andaleeve from his residence at about 1:00am on Thursday.
Besides BNP’s health affairs secretary Rafiqul Islam, standing committee member Tariqul Islam Tenjing, BNP vice-chairman Barkatullah Bulu’s son Saniat (who is not involved in politics) were arrested in different parts of the capital as part of arrest spree across the country over quota movement, said Mirza Fakhrul.
He issued the statement condemning the recent mass arrest of BNP and other opposition leaders and activists.