Dhaka Metropolitan Police on early Monday claimed that they arrested 33 people along with the United States’ newly elected president Donald Trump’s posters, banners and placards conducting drives in different areas Dhaka.
They were arrested for trying to implement the Awami League president Sheikh Hasina’s directives in a recently viral audio clip where she directed AL leaders and activists to use Trump’s posters instead of Hasina and her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marking Shaheed Noor Hossain Day, said a DMP press release issued on early Monday.
Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post of prime minister and fled to India on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.
The release also said that the arrested had a plan to vandalise photos and posters for creating an unstable situation and take photographs of such incident for sending those to the United States claiming Trump supporters were being attacked.
Different political parties and organisations observed the Shaheed Noor Hossain Day on Sunday amid tension as the AL announced a programme in Dhaka marking the day while people who led the movement to oust the AL regime in July-August vowed to resist them.
