Issuing a note of warning, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said public suffering and anarchy centering the BNP’s mass-sit-in programme in the city will not be tolerated.

“BNP won’t face any obstruction if they hold their programme peacefully.  If their programme becomes reason of public suffering then it won’t be tolerated,” he said while talking to reporters after inaugurating a Mujib Corner at Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) headquarters.

The government did not create any obstructions to BNP’s programmes  but the party resorted to violence in their previous programmes, he said adding “The law enforcers  will resist them if they block roads and carry out vandalism and destructive activities in the name of mass sit-in programme.”

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Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, Inspector General of Police (IGP) and commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan and high official concerned were present.

Earlier, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced  mass sit-in programmes in all divisional cities of the country on January 11.  The party will organise the sit-in programme in Dhaka in front of its central office at Nayapaltan.