The newly elected president and general secretary of Dhaka Taxes Bar Association failed to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia today as police intercepted them in front of her Gulshan office.

Mazam Ali Khan and Zafar Ullah went to Khaleda’s office this evening to exchange greetings with her as they have been elected president and general secretary of the association respectively.

Police intercepted them when they tried to enter the office around 6:40pm, Shamsuddin Didar, a member of the BNP chief’s press wing, told The Daily Star.