The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has alleged that police detained as many as 300 party leaders and activists last night only from hotels near its Nayapaltan office in the capital. 

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said this in a press release issued on Thursday (July 27).

The press release says that police detained former Dhaka City Corporation Ward 26 Commissioner Mir Ashraf Ali and his son Barrister Muntaha Ali from their home last night.

Shafiqul Haque Milan, a lawyer and the Relief and Rehabilitation Affairs Secretary of BNP central committee, Abdul Quddus Akon, Assistant-Organizing Secretary of BNP, and Anwar Hossain Ujjal, former General Secretary of Rajshahi Metropolitan BNP along with approximately 200 leaders and activists who came to Dhaka to attend the BNP's Grand Rally, were also arrested on last night in the capital by the various police units, it added. 

Police arrested Mir Ashraf Ali, the former commissioner of Ward No. 26, Dhaka City Corporation, and his son, Barrister Muntaha Ali, last night from their house. 

Rizvi strongly condemned such action by the police and demanded an immediate release of the arrested BNP activists.

BDST: 1238 HRS, JULY 27, 2023
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