The wife of missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali has urged the home minister to find the whereabouts of her husband at the earliest instead of giving her any assurance.
Tahsina Rushdir Luna, wife of BNP organising secretary Ilias, made the request when Shahara Khatun visited her house at Banani in the capital on Wednesday night.
Shahara told her that she has ordered the chiefs of police and Rapid Action Battalion to investigate the disappearance of the former BNP MP.
Holding Shahara's hand, a crying Luna said, "I don't want any assurance. Please return my husband for the sake of my children. At least let us know where he is now."
The home minister also told her that law-enforcing agencies are not behind the incident.
"As a democratic government, we don't want politics of undercover killing. Banani police, DB (Detective Branch) and RAB are investigating the matter. We are trying to trace him out," Shahara told reporters after visiting Ilias' house.
In reply to a reporter's query about BNP's allegation that the government was behind the disappearance of Ilias, the minister threw a counter-question, "Why should the government do it?"
"We didn't do any like this in the three years of our tenure," she said.
Asked whether she thinks that the law and order situation is getting worse, she said, "I entirely disagree."
Inspector general of police Hassan Mahmood Khandker and DMP commissioner Benazir Ahmed accompanied Shahara during her visit to the residence of Ilias around 10:30pm.
His car was found abandoned in front of the South Point School and College near Amtali crossing in Mohakhali around 1:30am.
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. She filed a general diary at the Banani Police Station.
BNP has blamed the government for the disappearance of Ilias and called a nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike for Sunday in protest against the incident.
The party also extended its support to Thursday's shutdown in Sylhet called by its local unit.
When the news of his going 'missing' spread, supporters of Ilias, a former lawmaker from Sylhet-2 constituency, started gathering at various places in Sylhet and Moulvibazar.
They started protest around 9am blocking nearly a 30-kilometre stretch of the Dhaka-Sylhet highway. They also clashed with police several times during the blockade that ended around 2pm.
Later, the government postponed Thursday's Higher Secondary Certificate examinations of Sylhet board and vocational board across the country in view of the hartal call by BNP in the district.
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