Bangladeshi police raids Khaleda Zia’s office

Dhaka, May 20 (IANS) Law enforcers in Dhaka on Saturday carried out a raid at the office of the country's largest opposition party chief Begum Khaleda Zia.A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) con

Dhaka, May 20 (IANS) Law enforcers in Dhaka on Saturday carried out a raid at the office of the country’s largest opposition party chief Begum Khaleda Zia.

A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) conducted the raid at the office of two-time former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, also chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), a staff of the BNP chief’s media wing told Xinhua.

A DMP official who preferred to be unnamed, said they had a search warrant issued by the court to carry out a raid at the BNP chief’s office in Dhaka’s diplomatic enclave Gulshan to find out if there is any anti-state document in it.

He did not respond to a question on whether they found something during the raid at the top opposition leader’s office.

The raid came more than a week after the party revealed its “rainbow nation building vision 2030” ahead of the country’s next general elections slated for early 2019.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday BNP’s ‘Vision 2030’ is actually a reproduction of her party’s Vision 2021 and 2041 which were announced earlier.

This is published unedited from the IANS feed.