Dhaka Bureau: DMP Joint Police Commissioner Khandkar Nurunnabi has commented that Chhatra Dal leaders and activists are stockpiling illegal weapons on the instructions of BNP central leaders ahead of the upcoming national elections. He said this while briefing about the arrest of 6 Chhatra Dal leaders with firearms and bullets on charges of planning and preparing a press briefing breakfast at DMP’s media center on Sunday (August 20).
Among the arrested leaders are – Dhaka University Chhatra Dal Senior Joint General Secretary Mominul Islam Jisan, Chhatra Dal Co-Organizing Secretary Shahadat Hossain, Dhaka University Chhatra Dal Vice President Md. Hasanur Rahman, Amar Ekushey Hall Branch Chhatra Dal President Abdullah Al Riyad, Jahangirnagar University Chhatra Dal Former Senior Joint General Secretary Zahir Uddin Babar and Private University Chhatra Dal Former Deputy General Secretary Arif Billah. Khandkar Nurunnabi said that the Chhatra Dal leaders who were arrested during the initial interrogation said that the BNP High Command had planned to create fear and panic in the public mind and destabilize the government with the aim of increasing the strength of the Dhaka University branch of the Chhatra Dal and other university leaders on the streets.
