Govt fails to stand by flood victims, check dengue: BNP

Leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday alleged that the government failed to stand by the flood victims for which the affected people were facing immense sufferings and that the government was in a mess in tackling dengue outbreak.

The party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, while distributing relief materials among flood affected people on the bank of Teesta of Patikapara in Hatibandha in Lalmonirhat, also alleged that the government was not standing by the flood affected people and that the prime minister was now out of the country at this crucial time, reports New Age correspondent in Lalmonirhat.

Fakhrul said BNP, amid numerous difficulties, reached the flood affected people.

‘If the party chairperson Khaleda Zia was not in jail, she would have come to the affected people to distribute relief materials,’ he said.

He alleged that Khaleda, though badly ill and suffering from diabetes, was kept in jail forcibly in false cases for 18 months and was not given proper treatment.

Fakhrul demanded Khaleda’s immediate release and urged the party leaders and activists to be united to launch movement for Khaleda’s release.

He alleged that child lifting panic was persisting in the country as government failed to ensure people’s security.

The BNP leader came down heavily on the government for its failure to tackle dengue epidemic. He alleged that though two physicians and a university student died from dengue and thousands of people were infected, the government took no initiative for contain spreading of the disease but was terming spreading dengue a rumour.

He demanded immediate dissolution of parliament and to hold a new election under a neutral election commission.

BNP standing committee member Iqbal Mahmud Tuku, joint secretary general Moazzem Hossain Alal and organising secretary Asadul Chowdhury, among others, were present.

A total of 27 districts of north and central part of Bangladesh was affected by flood and over 100 people died in the flood.

In Dhaka, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, addressing a press conference at the party central office at Naya Paltan in Dhaka, alleged that though the number of dengue infection had crossed 3,50,000 but the health directorate’s data showed that only 9,657 people were infected.

‘Actually, the government was using its institutions to hide dengue outbreak,’ he alleged and said that the government was in a mess over dengue issue.\

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net