Govts wants to divert public attention away from search committee: Fakhrul

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday claimed that warrant for arresting Tarique Rahman in a ‘fabricated’ case is a clear government ‘tactic’ to divert public attention from the ‘partisan search committee.’
Fakhrul came up with the remarks in a statement issued to protest against the warrant for arrest Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s senior vice-chairman, Tarique Rahman.
He said issuing arrest warrant for Tarique is a part of the government’s ‘continuous attack’ on the BNP leader.
A special court in Dhaka on Thursday issued the warrant in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, after revoking Tarique’s bail in the case. 
Fakhrul alleged that the government has kept filing continuously ‘fabricated’ and ‘false’ cases and issuing arrest warrant for leaders and activists of BNP across the country to erase their nationalistic spirit.
He said people believe that false cases are being instituted one after another only to be followed by issuance of arrest warrants to eliminate and keep away Zia family– the bearer of the nationalist force– from politics.
Fakhrul said Tarique Rahman has now been staying abroad for his medical treatment after being tortured by 1/11 government.
Tarique has been staying in the United Kingdom since September 2008. The BNP secretary general expressed his strong resentment over the issuance of arrest warrant and demanded withdrawal of ‘ill-motivated’ cases and warrants, involving him.
Meanwhile, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a news briefing at the party’s central office condemned and protested against police attacks on a peaceful procession of people during hartal in Dhaka city on Thursday. 
The hartal was called by National Committee to protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports, demanding scrap of coal-fired power plant at Rampal, near Sunderbans. 

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