On March 20, 54 Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders and activists were arrested by police during a raid at a "secret meeting" at Dhaka's Banani Club, including Momin Ali, the former chairman of the Sreenagar union council, Delwar Hossain, the general secretary of the party's Sreenagar unit, and Awlad Hossain, the former general secretary of the party's Sirajdikhan unit, reports Bd News 24. They were all arrested on accusations of planning an anti-state conspiracy.