Opposition BNP has  already  pointed  its  finger at  the  government 
forces  blaming  them of  kidnapping  and   disappearance  of   Eliyas 
Ali  who  is  also  the organising secretary of   the party.

Sylhet
district  BNP  president, M Elias Ali along with his driver has been
missing since Tuesday night. City police found Elias’s car abandoned
near in city’s Mohakhali area. 

Elias Ali’s wife Tahsina Rushdi Luna informed police that her husband
went out of their Banani house with two other people around 9:30pm on
Tuesday and since then she has not been able to contact him.Luna filed a
general diary at the Banani Police Station.

A  writ petition was filed with the High Court on Thursday seeking its
order on the law-enforcers to produce ‘missing’ BNP leader M Elias Ali
before it. Elias Ali’s  wife filed the petition claiming that the law
enforcers kept her husband detained “illegally”.

Sensing  the adverse  public  reactions, Home minister Sahara Khatun
visited the residence of BNP  leader  M Elias Ali in Banani area of the
capital on Wednesday night. Inspector general of police Hassan Mahmood
Khandker and DMP commissioner Benazir Ahmed accompanied Shahara during
her visit to the residence of the missing former BNP MP around 10:30pm.
However, BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition Begum Khaleda Zia
has blamed the government for the disappearance  of the BNP leader M
Elias Ali and warned of waging tougher movement if the leader is not
released.  

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, she alleged that the
government agencies and RAB picked up the leader and called upon the
government to find out him without any delay.

Khaleda Zia,  a  former prime Minister  of the country, threatened to
build-up resistance along with the current movement and finally go  for 
one-point movement to oust  the government  if Elias Ali is not
returned safely.

“The government already abducted a number of leaders and workers of the
opposition, including a city unit leader Chowdhury Alam, and killed them
secretary. It has to face trial for all of the secret killings,” she
added. 

The BNP chief also warned that they would raise the matter of
indiscriminate abduction and secret killing in the international court
if needed.

Denying the allegation, Rapid Action Battalion and police said the
opposition leader Elias Ali is not in their custody.  They said on
Wednesday that drives have been launched to trace the ‘disappeared’
opposition party leader.

Meanwhile, Eliyas Ali’s wife Tahsina Rushdir Luna has filed a general
diary with the Banani Police Station  and  a  writ  petition  before the
High court on Wendesday,

In   an  instant  outburst ,  BNP workers and  sympathysers  in  his 
home  constituency  in Sylhet  gathered  at various places in Sylhet and
Moulvibazar  and  put  blockade  along   30-kilometre stretch of the
Dhaka-Sylhet highway. They also clashed with police several times during
the blockade that ended around 2pm on Tuesday State minister for home
Shamsul Hoque Tuku on Thursday said the government was ‘embarrassed’
about the ‘disappearance’ of BNP organising secretary M Ilias Ali.

“It is embarrassing for the government that Ilias Ali cannot be found,”
he told newsmen after a meeting with a six-strong BNP delegation at the
ministry.

He said the government has already directed all the law-enforcing
agencies and detective wings to track him down. “We are leaving no stone
unturned to find him out,” Tuku said.

Earlier the day, a BNP delegation led by the party’s acting secretary
general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir met home minister Shahara Khatun
seeking  government   help  to find  out  and rescue  the former
lawmaker.