United News of Bangladesh

The body of a local Krishak Dal leader was exhumed following a court order, around 14 months after his burial in Terbeki of Lakshmipur municipality on Sunday. The body of Shahadat Hossain Parash, former vice-president of the district unit Krishak Dal, was exhumed around 11:30am from the family graveyard . Executive Magistrate Hasan Muhammad Nahid Sheikh Sumon and Medical Officer of Lakshmipur Sadar Hospital Arman Hossain were present during the exhumation. Parash, son of Jalal Uddin of Shamsherabad area, died in Jorarganj Mostan Nagar area of Chattogram district on March 7 last year. According to family members, after returning from abroad, Parash had gone to Chattogram with his friend Mohon to purchase a soil excavation vacuum machine. He was carrying Tk 10 lakh for purchasing the machine at the time. The body was sent to Lakshmipur Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy and it will be reburied after the examination, said Nahid Sheikh.

BNP is set to hold nationwide “mourning rallies,” including in Dhaka, today, protesting the killing of a Krishak Dal leader in Laxmipur on Tuesday during the party’s road march. Today’s rallies are also meant for registering the party’s protest against attacks on the road marches brought out by the party and its alliance partners on Tuesday. Leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies will bring out a mourning rally in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka at 3 pm. AL shares video of ‘BNP men’ vandalising election camp in Ctg-10 BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas announced the programme while concluding the second-day’s march from Uttara’s Abdullahpur towards Jatrabari in the capital on Wednesday. Later, at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the mourning rallies will be brought out in all metropolitan cities and district towns. BNP to hold countrywide mourning rallies Thursday In Dhaka, he said, they will bring out a mourning rally from Nayapaltan at 3pm and it will end at Moghbazar after going through Shantinagar, Malibagh and Mouchak. Besides, he said their party leaders and activists will give out leaflets among Muslim devotees in mosques across the country after Juma prayers on Friday, to press home their one-point demand, including the resignation of the government. Over 2, 000 BNP men implicated for clashes with police in Feni As part of their one-point movement, BNP staged countrywide marches, including in the capital, on Tuesday and Wednesday. The party’s march on Tuesday was marked by violent clashes with police and Awami League activists in different parts of the country, leaving at least one man dead and several hundred people injured. BNP's march also came under attack near Mirpur Govt Bangla college on the same day in the capital. On July 12, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir formally announced a ‘one-point’ movement with the goal to remove Awami League from power and hold the upcoming national election under a “neutral” government.