<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq Friday said they have scaled up security ahead of the 22nd national council of the Awami League (AL) in the Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital Saturday.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">He, however, dismissed any security threat surrounding the council which is likely to see the participation of "more than one lakh leaders and activists" of the ruling party.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The DMP commissioner was speaking with the media after visiting the Suhrawardy Udyan Friday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The security arrangements in the area were made keeping Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in mind, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The prime minister survived many attempts on her life in the past. So, we have beefed up security and vigilance this time," Golam Faruq added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">About the escape of two convicted militants from a Dhaka court on November 20, he said: "They will be arrested soon. We have been able to identify their associates already. We will arrest the rest of them soon."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"There is no terrorist threat (in the country now)," the DMP commissioner added. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>