The government should resign if it fails to return missing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury said today.

“It is the government’s responsibility to find out Salahuddin and return him to his family. If unable to do so, then it will be considered as the governments’ failure,” Badruddoza said after a meeting with Hasina Ahmed, wife of Salahuddin, at her Gulshan residence in Dhaka.

Expressing concern over the missing of Salahuddin, the BDB chief said, “The incident will be a bad example in our politics”.

According to the family of Salahuddin and BNP, a team of 20/30 people showed identity cards of Dete ctive Branch of police and picked up the joint secretary general of the party from a house in the capital's Uttara.

Following a writ petition filed by his wife with the High Court, law enforcement agencies submitted five separate reports to the attorney general office on March 15 saying that none of the agencies had arrested the BNP leader.

The reports were submitted by the offices of the inspector general of police, director general of Rapid Action Battalion, Criminal Investigation Department, Special Branch of Police, and Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Salahuddin, a former state minister, frequently announced hartals by issuing press releases on behalf of the BNP-led 20-party alliance.