PM has ‘deceived’ anti-quota agitators: BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday alleged that the prime minister had ‘deceived’ the students agitating for quota reforms in public services by declaring abolishment of the quota system.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a news briefing at the party’s central office made the remark, adding that Bangladesh Chhatra League, student body of the ruling Awami League, unleashed ‘barbaric’ attacks on the agitating students on Saturday.
He strongly condemned Chhatra League attacks on quota-reform agitators.
The students who were at the forefront of the movement were selectively attacked with sharp weapons and were severely injured, Rizvi said.
‘Earlier, we had said that accepting the demand of quota reform was nothing but a joke of the prime minister. On that day, the prime minister basically deceived agitating students,’ he said.
On April 11, prime minister Sheikh Hasina in parliament said that there would be no quota system in government recruitments in the wake of the student movement across the country for quota reform.
Turning to BNP’s jailed ailing chairperson Khaleda Zia, the senior BNP leader said that the government had made Khaleda’s health condition turn ‘inhuman’ by keeping her in a state of not allowing her access to medical treatment.
Rizvi said that Khaleda’a relatives who met her at the jail on Saturday were shocked to see her health condition. 
He said that the advices for Khaleda’s proper treatment given by not only her personal physicians but also physicians at government hospitals had not been followed.
Rizvi reiterated the party’s demand for an immediate ‘unconditional’ release of Khaleda and her proper treatment at United Hospital in Dhaka.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net