Dhaka: Virtually confining former Prime Ministers Khaleda Zia and her archrival Sheikh Hasina to their houses, authorities in emergency-ruled Bangladesh have put restrictions on people, specially leaders from their political parties, from visiting them.
Security officials tightened restrictions on visitors only allowing a handful of close relatives and some senior party leaders to see Hasina at her Sudha Sadan residence while Zia was allowed to meet only one relative in the past four days at her residence inside Dhaka Cantonment, the Daily Star and other newspapers reported on Thursday.
Regardless of the ‘restriction’ on her movement, Hasina stepped out in public on Wednesday morning for the first time since her homecoming two days ago to see the body of a leader of her Awami League (AL) at a city hospital.
But security officials in the evening tightened restriction on Hasina forcing her to scrap two private programmes and barred several senior leaders from entering her home.
The law enforcers restricted almost all the senior leaders from going inside Sudha Sadan saying that there was a restriction, but they did not notify the AL chief about it officially, Hasina's personal assistant Dr Hasan Mahmoud told reporters.
Meanwhile, only one relative was allowed to visit Zia in the past four days, the papers reported. But Dhaka's deputy police commissioner Selim Mohammad Jahangir denied imposition of any bar. "We have not imposed any bar. We just barred some people who are unknown on security grounds," he told the New Age newspaper.
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