Ekushey book fair turns into an Awami fair: BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday criticised the government, saying that the Ekushe Book Fair had lost its universal appeal and the fair had turned into an Awami fair.

Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the allegation in a press briefing at the party central office at Naya Paltan in Dhaka.

He said, ‘The Ekushe Book Fair is going on. The book fair had universal appeal earlier, but now it has turned into an Awami book fair.’

‘The book fair has already lost its universal appeal. The stalls at the fair have been decorated as per the party spirit of Awami League. If anyone enters the fair, he or she would think whether it was a council session of Awami League,’ he alleged.

The opposition party leader alleged that one-party’s continuing misrule had a bad impact on the Ekushe book fair this year.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net