Oust AL govt just like Pakistani forces: BNP

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday called for an all-out effort to force out the Awami League government just like the struggle against the Pakistani occupation forces as the government held onto power by forcibly grabbing it.

Addressing a discussion organised by BNP at Mahanagar Natyamancha auditorium in the capital marking the 49th victory day, senior BNP leaders also accused the government of destroying the spirit of the liberation war and depoliticising the country.

Addressing the discussion as the chair, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir compared the government with the Pakistani occupation forces that used brutality and repression to cling to the power.

‘Come forward to launch movement to oust the Awami League as we did to oust the Pakistani occupation army and the autocrat government to establish people’s government,’ he said.

Fakhrul regretted that a significant number of people were still below the poverty line and income inequality had increased manifold in the country.

‘We are yet to get our political and economic freedom even in 48 years of winning independence,’ he added.

The leader also blamed the government of controlling all the state organs as well as the judiciary.

Fakhrul Islam said that AL appeared as a neo-occupation force and had forcibly remained in power by grabbing it.

‘Khaleda Zia was kept in jail by the government in a bid to stay in power for ever. There is a deep rooted conspiracy behind it. The conspiracy is to depoliticise the country,’ he said and alleged that the AL did not believe in people’s freedom.

‘The Supreme Court order of not allowing Khaleda Zia’s bail plea proved that the judiciary was no more independent,’ he said and added that the AL had grabbed the power as an occupation force did always.

The BNP leader alleged that the government had completed all the measures to initiate a one party rule by amending the constitution and formulating different laws.

About recently published list of collaborators, a number of leaders claimed that over 8,000 names of them belonged to the ruling AL and that most of the collaborators belonged to the AL.

BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, referring to Indian home minister Amit Shah’s comment in their parliament that religious minorities were tortured during the BNP government, said that Amit Shah lied on an internal matter in Bangladesh.

BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy alleged that the AL, not BNP, grabbed the land of the religious minorities.

‘Visit the religious minorities areas, you will find 90 per cent of them are grabbed by the Awami League leaders,’ he also said.

BNP standing committee members Mirza Abbas and Abdul Moyeen Khan and joint secretary generals Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel also spoke.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net