Senior BNP leaders did not get permission to meet BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. Later they came back from the gelgate.
On Saturday, the party's secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas, Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, former Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Faruque and other leaders of the party came in front of the prison.
At this time the police barricaded them to go to the prisoner with barricades. On behalf of the police, they will not be able to meet Khaleda Zia because she is not allowed. They do not return after getting permission to meet.
Asked why did not meet today, Mirza Fakhrul said, "We do not know that."
Asked why the reasons were not allowed to enter, petrol police inspector Al Mamun Bhuiyan told reporters that BNP had requested to meet BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia earlier. However, no licensing of the prison department came to them. BNP leaders were not allowed to meet for this.
Earlier, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi had said that leaders led by Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will go to jail.
Rizvi further said, on Saturday at 11:30 pm, pay tribute to Ziaur Rahman's grave at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. BNP leaders will go to jail to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia after paying tributes.
It may be mentioned that on February 8, Begum Khaleda Zia was sentenced to five years in jail in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. The Special Judge Court of Dhaka declared the verdict in the 5th. Begum Khaleda Zia was taken to the old central prison of Nazimuddin Road from the court shortly after the verdict was announced. Currently he is there.