DHAKA: Law enforcers have taken additional security measures around National Press Club as BNP is staging mass hunger strike there Sunday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has deployed a water canon and a prison van in front the gate of press club.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) started countrywide mass hunger strike on Sunday protesting ‘forced disappearance-killings’. 

The demonstration began with the recitation from holy verses of Quran at National Press Club in capital around 9:15am and wil continue till 5:00pm while party leaders and activists of districts, upazilas and metropolitan levels are also observing hunger strike.

BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Vice Chairman Mirza Abbas, Publicity Secretary and former BNP Chief Whip Joynal Abdin Farroque already joined the programme. 

Chairperson of the party Khaleda Zia is likely to join the mass hunger strike at 4:00pm to express her solidarity.

BDST: 1243 HRS, MAY 4, 2014