BNP on Sunday paid its last respects to the party’s vice-chairman and senior lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain by placing wreaths on his coffin. Mahbub’s coffin was taken to BNP’s Nayapaltan central office at about 11am and kept on a stage, enabling party leaders and activists to have a last glimpse of the deceased, who passed away on Saturday night. On behalf of BNP, its standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Nazrul Islam Khan, placed wreaths on the coffin of the veteran lawyer and draped it with a party flag as a mark of respect. Earlier, the third Namaz-e-janaza of Mahbub was held in front of the BNP central office participated by several hundred party leaders and activists. In a brief address, Khandaker Mosharraf said, “We’re very shocked over his death. He was our beloved leader and a vice chairman of BNP who fought for the party, for the country, for the people, and for the nationalist forces in the courts for establishing truth and justice.” He said the loss BNP suffered through Mahbub’s death is irreparable. “Lawyers lost their guardian and we lost a leader of nationalist ideals.” Mosharraf prayed for the salvation of Mahbub’s departed soul and conveyed his profound sympathy to the bereaved family members. Khandaker Mahbub Hossain died at Evercare Hospital Saturday night at the age of 84.His first janaza was held at Bashundhara residential area mosque and the second one on Khandaker Mahbub Hossain Eye Hospital premises at Mirpur. Also read: BNP Vice-Chairman Khandaker Mahbub dies aged 84 On Wednesday, the BNP leader was put on a ventilator at Evercare a day after being admitted there with respiratory problem. Mahbub, former vice-president of the Bangladesh Bar Council and president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, was one of the lawyers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

BNP on Monday alleged that ruling party ‘cadres’ engaged in vote ‘robbery’ by ‘capturing’ most polling stations during elections to 24 municipalities at different parts of the country. 

Terming untrue the allegations that mentioned in the show-cause notice served on him, BNP Vice-chairman Maj (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed on Saturday said he felt insulted as the party senior joint secretary general issued it in an ‘attacking language that goes against courtesy and protocol’.

“We must wage another war for the restoration of democracy in this month of victory with courage. We've to take a vow that we’ll either restore democracy or die in this war,” he said. Speaking at a doa-mahfil, the BNP leader said, "Don’t we've  the responsibility for repaying the blood debt of the martyrs of the Liberation War?" If so, why should we back off from the

BNP senior leader Selima Rahman on Wednesday alleged that the government is harassing opposition leaders and activists by implicating them in fresh ‘false cases’ out of its fear of facing an imminent fall since it has already lost the ‘ground beneath its feet’.  

BNP on Friday strongly protested a recent article written by The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam about the party’s role during the August-21 grenade attack, 2004 and branded him as a ‘kingpin’ of democracy killers' in Bangladesh.

BNP on Saturday alleged that the government has taken a move to raise the tariffs of electricity and fuel every year to "boost ruling party leaders’ deposits with Swiss banks through plundering".

BNP on Monday accused the government of adopting a ‘hide-and-seek policy’ of ‘no test, no corona’ like that of Iran and Italy only to invite a grave danger for the country.

Seven aspirants have bought BNP’s nomination forms to contest the upcoming by-polls to three parliamentary seats in Dhaka, Bagerhat and Gaibandha.

BNP on Monday alleged that Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has ruined the country’s economy by creating a scope for ruling party leaders to indulge in ‘widespread plundering of public money’.