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) 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.

--IANS
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