Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested two BNP leaders including Joint Secretary General Mohammad Shajahan from capital’s Gulshan area.   The RAB arrested him on Sunday night over the allegation of conspiracy against the government.   The RAB's media wing Deputy Director Rumman Mahmud said Shahjahan and BNP Executive Committee member Belal Ahmed were nabbed from Dhaka's Gulshan area.

"We came to know that they were conspiring against the government," he said.

Both of the BNP leaders have been taken to the RAB headquarters.

Former MP Shahjahan is the president of Noakhali district unit of the BNP.