<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">BNP Secretary General Mirza Faklhrul Islam Alamgir was barred from going into BNP’s Nayapaltan Central Office this morning.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Police stopped Fakhrul when he reached Bijoynagar intersection around 10:50am, after appearing before a Dhaka court in the morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police officers told the senior BNP leader that they will not allow anyone to go into the BNP office until their necessary work is done for security reasons, as they “recovered bombs” from there.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Police are lying... This is our office, and I will go in. It is my right to go there," said Fakhrul.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Biplab Sarkar, joint commissioner (operation) of DMP headquarters, told Fakhrul that BNP leaders threw cocktails at police yesterday in the area, and that BNP office is not safe, it is now "a crime scene".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"No one is allowed to go in until our work is done," he said. As Fakhrul got agitated, Biplab requested, "Please don’t be angry and cooperate with us.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fakhrul responded, "Don’t talk like political leaders."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fakhrul said the BNP office is "their property" and they have the right to go in.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Later, talking to reporters, the BNP leader said, “Despite being the BNP secretary general, I was not allowed to go to my party’s central office. This is my democratic right.What the police officer said about bombs in our office is a blatant lie. They (police) themselves carried the bombs and kept those there.”</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police kept the bombs in BNP office: Fakhrul</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He demanded the government reopen the BNP office and release all arrested BNP leaders and activists. He also urged the government to take proper action against those involved in the killing of the Swechchasebak Dal leader.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He called upon the government to take proper steps so that BNP can hold its rally in a peaceful manner.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Asked where their rally will be held on December 10, Fakhrul said they will inform the media on that at the press conference at 3pm today. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>