Political Clashes Grow in Capital of Bangladesh

DHAKA, Bangladesh — A growing sense of disaster gripped Bangladesh on Sunday as the government closed various forms of transport in the capital, under arrest hundreds and barred the main conflict alliance from holding a protest rally. Police executives surrounded the home of the main antagonism leader, Khaleda Zia, an earlier prime minister who directs the Nationalist Party of Bangladesh, and prohibited her followers from meeting outside the party’s head office in Dhaka,the capital. 

 

Mrs. Zia had described for a “March for Democracy” on Sunday to complain the government’s result to hold a national vote on Jan. 5. The opposition alliance has demanded that the management step aside in support of caretaker managements to oversee the vote. However, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, under arrest in 2007 by a prior caretaker management, has declined to step aside and has said that the vote will be detained as scheduled. The police force parked at least 5 trucks filled with sand outside of the Mrs. Zia home and deployed water cannon beside barricades. She got into a white car around 1:50 p.m. and attempted to drive near her party’s head office, but was blocked by a cordon of police officers. 

Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh's opposition leader, has been 'detained' in her home after calling for protests against the country's general election

 “The program to re-establish democracy will go on,” she said to wait newspapers, according to local media reports. The program will continue “Either today or tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The greatest effort between the two political alliances has paralyzed Bangladesh, unnerved Western governments and injured the country’s vital garment industry. She said, the current government was “illegal and undemocratic.” “They should step losing immediately if they had any grace left,” she said.