Fascist govt eats up everything, says Fakhrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that the government turned fascist and was eating up everything of the country.

‘Many term this government an autocrat. No, they are more. They are “father of autocrat”. They turned fascist,’ he said.

He made the remarks at a at a discussion organised by Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal at Supreme Court Bar Association auditorium in Dhaka marking the 54th birth anniversary of Tarique Rahman.

‘Autocrats at least follow some norms. Ershad was an autocrat, Ayub Khan was autocrat. But the situation then  was not like that of now. This government is fascist. They have only one person and nothing else,’ Fakhrul said.

He said that the government continued tortured BNP activists for the past 10 years and now they were torturing common people by increasing prices of daily essential commodities like onion and salt.

He said the government’s activities resembled to that of the main character of Selim Al Deen’s play ‘Muntasir Fantasy’ in which the main character Munstasir was so hungry that he ate up everything — chair, table, papers and whatever he found.

‘The government have fallen in that fantasy and have been eating up everything. They have eaten casinos, mega projects and now they have been eating common people’s onion and salt,’ he said.

‘The lone target of the government is to loot by remaining in power in any means to make their people wealthy, sending the money abroad, and protect the money only to keep their children safe.  They have no scope to think for country’s people,’ he alleged.

The BNP secretary general saw a ray of hope in the leadership of the party’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman amid prevailing helplessness and hopelessness in the country.

The BNP secretary general said many criticise that Tarique was running the party from abroad and got the responsibility as an heir. 

‘We say Tarique Rahman did not come to politics as an heir. He was born in a political environment… He is leader in two ways, one by birth and the other by earning all the qualities of being a leader,’ said Fakhrul.

Presided over by Swechchhasebak Dal president Shafiul Bari Babu, the discussion was also addressed by, among others, BNP vice-chairmen Zainul Abedin and Shaukat Mahmood, joint secretary general Habub un Nabi Khan Sohel and volunteer affairs secretary Mir Sarafat Ali Shapu, and National Press Club’s former general secretary Syed Abdal Ahmed.

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