DHAKA NEWS
At least 15 BNP leaders and activists including BNP Vice-chairman Selima Rahman were detained during the countrywide daylong shutdown for second straight day on Monday.
Ten BNP women activists including BNP leader Selima Rahman were picked up from capital's Gulshan area when they brought out a procession there.
Police also detained three people from in front of BNP's main office in Nayapaltan and two from Central Shaheed Minar premises.
No major incident of violence was reported in the capital or elsewhere in the country when the opposition and its alliance-called hartal passed seven hours.
Meanwhile, unknown perpetrators hurled a cocktail in front of Bangladesh Bank around 11:30am in Motijheel and another cocktail went off in Fakirerpool area around 9:00am. None was injured in the incidents.
Unknown criminals torched a minibus in the city's Chankharpool area around 7:30am while a BRTC bus was vandalised in Motijheel, the commercial hub of the capital.
On the other hand, several BNP lawmakers including MK Anwar, Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anne and Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papia brought out a procession and held two rallies on the parliament premises in the morning.
During the first rally held around 9:30am, MK Anwar claimed that M Ilias Ali has been disappeared for raising his voice against various national issues.
In Mohakhali, Bangladesh Chhatra League activists along with law enforcers chased and dispersed a procession brought out by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activists of Titumir College unit at Wireless Gate around 9:20am.
In the meantime, activists of ruling Awami League's student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League brought out an anti-hartal procession holding books and notebooks high demanding an end to the hartal that impedes academic activities countrywide.
Opposition activists could not take to the street in front of its Nayapaltan main office in the capital due to police obstruction.
Police, like the recent hartal days, virtually cordoned off the BNP’s main office since 6:00am, the starting time of hartal.
The main opposition BNP and its allies announced the hartal on Sunday after wrapping up a 24 hours hartal on Ilias issue.
Huge contingents of law enforcers are seen patrolling the streets at all key points of the city to maintain law and order during the hartal hours.
Exceptionally a number of passenger buses, CNG-run three-wheelers and motorcycles are seen plying on the main city streets while private cars stay off the roads.
Rickshaws are found dominating the main thoroughfares of the city which is usual in hartal days.
No long-route buses left the city terminal since the morning. The train and launch services however remain normal.
All educational institutions, business establishments, most shops and shopping malls besides the major thoroughfares remained closed. However, the government offices remain opened.
Meanwhile, the government postponed today's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations due to the hartal.
The incidents of minor violence reported from Sylhet, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Bogra and Sirajganj.
CHITTAGONG
At least 19 people including Monwara Begum Moni, a ward councillor of Chittagong City Corporation, was picked up in the port city.
The arrestees include nine Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal activists.
Police picked up the women activists from Ispahani intersection around 10:30am while the remaining was detained from Kalamia Bazar of the city.
RAJSHAHI
At least 16 people including a police constable were injured in separate clashes in Rajshahi city, our Rajshahi correspondent reports.
Pro-hartal activists also set fire to a CNG-run three-wheeler at Meher-chandi area of the city around 7:00am.
The incident of chase and counter-chase took place in Ambagan area of the city when police charged truncheons and fired tear gas canisters to disperse a rally led by city BNP unit President Mizanur Rahman Minu around 8:00am.
Police arrested three BNP activists from the spot.
At least 15 BNP men were injured when law enforcers charged batons and beat them indiscriminately while they were returning to the Rajshahi College after holding a rally in support of the hartal.
BOGRA
Bogra police Sunday night arrested 14 BNP activists for their alleged involvement with pro-hartal activities, reports our correspondent.
Md Arifur Rahman Mandol, Assistant Superintendent of Police (circle A) of Bogra however denied the allegation saying that the arrest was made for their involved with several criminal cases in compliance with a court order.
Bogra district BNP organising secretary Md Shaha Alam that police arrested the activities from several areas of Shibganj upazila.
Meanwhile, Shibgonj police said one Shakul Miha and three other BNP activists were arrested for their alleged link with torching a rice-laden truck during Sunday's hartal hours in the upazila.
SIRAJGANJ
Police picked up Al-Amin Hossain, organising secretary of Jubo Dal Sirajganj district unit, and Abdur Razzak, a BNP activist, when they were picketing at Jublibagan in the town and Shialkot in Sadar upazila respectively in the morning.
BACKGROUND
M Ilias Ali, a former lawmaker and now Sylhet Division organising secretary of the party, and his driver went missing around midnight of April 17.
On Wednesday, police found Ilias's private car abandoned near his Banani residence in the capital and that day BNP called a dawn-to-dusk hartal for Sunday.
Sunday’s countrywide hartal was observed without any major incidents.
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