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.
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| 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.
