BNP’s 6-hr mass hunger strike begins

MNA National Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders and activists started observing a six-hour mass hunger strike in the city on Thursday, protesting the conviction of its chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable Trust graft case.

The protest programme began around 10:00am at Mohanagar Natya Mancha in the capital and it will continue till 4:00pm.

Several hundred leaders and activists joined the programme amid tight vigilance by police.

BNP senior leaders, including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, is scheduled to address the programme.

However, similar programmes are being observed in other districts and metropolitan cities, reported news agency.