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BNP chairperson and opposition leader Khaleda Zia visited Professor Anu Mohammad at the Square Hospital on Wednesday evening as the Jahangirnagar University teacher and others were injured in police action during a protest march in the city, reports UNB.
Prof Anu and at least 32 others were injured when police swooped on the procession brought out by the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports in the city''s Bijoynagar area on Wednesday afternoon. The former PM condemned the "attack" on the committee''s member-secretary, Prof Anu Mohammad.
She spent some time beside the injured Professor of Economics and wished him early recovery.
Later, the BNP chairperson went to see injured BNP Chuadanga district convener Wahidul Islam Biswas and Chuadanga Jubodal activist Mohammad Lalon at the city''s Ibn Sina Hospital. They both were injured in an attack on their rally in Chuadanga Tuesday to mark BNP''s 31st founding anniversary.
BNP leaders Brig Gen (retd) ASM Hannan Shah, Shirin Sultana and BNP chairperson''s press wing member Shamsuddin Didar, among others, accompanied Khaleda Zia.
Meanwhile, the BNP chief in a statement strongly condemned the police attack on the procession of the National Committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports during their march towards the Petrobangla headquarters to protest offshore gas-block leasing to foreign firms.
She termed "barbaric" the police action on the procession of the protesters who were vocal in safeguarding national interest.
"The incident proved that the present government was not aware of the need for protecting the national interests. It also indulged in subduing the conscious protesters with muscle power," she said.
Khaleda said the national interests and independence of the country earned with sacrifice of thousands of martyrs are above all else.
"The people of the country would never compromise with anybody on the matter," she said.
The ex-PM called upon the people of the country to stand united in protecting the national interests.
She also conveyed deep sympathies to the leaders injured in the attack and prayed for their early recovery.

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