UNB, Dhaka

Awami League will proceed with its planned mass hunger strike on May 5 to press for release of detained party chief Sheikh Hasina as they yesterday got the go-ahead from the police.
Awami League acting general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam told reporters in the evening that the token hunger strike would be observed from 10am to 4pm at the party’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue and Dhanmondi office.
Earlier, a presidium meeting was held at Awami League acting president Zillur Rahman’s Gulshan house under his chairmanship. [Read more]