BNP has started a token hunger strike at Mohanagar Natya Mancha in Dhaka protesting the Supreme Court order upholding its stay on bail granted by the High Court to Khaleda Zia in a murder case filed in Comilla.

BNP senior leaders including the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other senior leaders participated in the token hunger strike that started around 10:00am.

Similar programmes will be held in all district towns across the country today, the party's senior joint secretary general, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said yesterday.

Speaking at a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan central office yesterday, he said police and Dhaka South City Corporation authorities gave their party verbal permission to hold the token hunger strike at the Mohanagar Natya Mancha.

On July 2, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld its previous order staying the High Court order that had granted bail to Khaleda in a murder case filed over an arson attack in Comilla on February 3, 2015.