DHAKA: All bars have been removed from BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office early Monday. Member of law enforcement agencies have been withdrawn. After 16 day’s of her ‘confinement’, she can come out of her office.

Additional police, water cannon and police van left the streets in front of Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan area at 2:50am.

Seven police members led-by a Sub-Inspector are seen guarding the office since then.

An on-duty policeman, wishing anonymity, told banglanews that at present, such numbers of police are discharging their duties there which remain as usual.

The water cannon and police van full of policemen and women left both end of Road 86 of Gulshan Circle-2, where Khaleda's office is located, he added. 

Later, six vehicles of Chairperson’s Security Force (CSF) have been parked on the street in front of her office at Gulshan.

Khaleda Zia has been staying her office from January 3, ahead of 20-party alliance’s pre-scheduled rally to observe January 5, the first anniversary of the parliamentary election in 2014, as ‘Democracy Killing Day’.

Two days after her confinement there, the BNP chairperson called for a nationwide blockade for an indefinite period as the government barred her from joining the rally.

On January, 13 trucks loaded with sand and bricks had been placed blocking both ends of the streets leading to Khaleda's office so that 'none can take  chance' as thousands of devotees entering Dhaka after the Ijtema.

Earlier on December 28, 2013, Khaleda Zia was confined to her Gulshan house ahead of her party’s ‘March for Democracy’ programme on December 29. 

BDST: 0824 HRS, JAN 19, 2015