BNP office under police siege

Dhaka, July 10 (bdnews24.com) ? Opposition BNP's Naya Paltan headquarters look deserted as police have kept the party leaders and activists at bay amid the ongoing 30-hour shutdown.

Law enforcers cordoned the party office off on Sunday and did not let anyone enter or come out of it.

BNP and its ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami have extended their support to the hartal called by 12 Islamic parties, mostly Islamists, demanding that 'Absolute Faith and Trust on Allah' be reinstated in the constitution and secularism be dropped.

Several hundred policemen in riot gear were patrolling the area. They locked the main gate of the BNP office around 10am.

Other than a few office staff, there was no-one in the BNP central office.

'Rafique', an office assistant, said police did not allow anyone enter the office. "They [police] even told us not to get out of the office," he told bdnews24.com.

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