UNO attack ominous sign, says BNP

The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday condemned the attack on Ghoraghat upazilla nirbahi officer Wahida Khanam and his father at her residence terming it an ominous sign for the country.

Part secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a statement expressed deep concern over the attack saying that such attack on the highest government official at an upazilla proved that the government turned the country to a failed state.

The government has no legitimacy to rule the country as they came to power through a farcical election, he alleged.

‘They are trying to retain their power through criminalisation and repressions  on the opposition parties’, Fakhrul said.

‘This type of attack is a very alarming sign for the state. I demand immediate arrest and exemplary of the attackers,’ Fakhrul said and prayed for early recovery of Wahida and her father.

Wahida was seriously injured in an attack by assailants at her residence on the Ghoraghat Upazila Parishad premises early Thursday. Her father Omar Ali was also injured in the attack.

She was airlifted from Rangpur to Dhaka, and admitted to the National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital, Dhaka.

Fakhrul BNP leader alleged that the government wanted to prolong its power by resorting to violence. ‘The opposition parties and their opinions are being suppressed in a gory way. Now government officials are also being subjected to their (ruling party’s) brutality.’

He said that miscreants were being encouraged to indulge in crimes with the way the current government kept carrying out extrajudicial killings, including that of retired army officer Major Sinha, ever since it came to power.

Stating that the law-and-order situation in the country has now deteriorated badly, he said the government vicious agenda is on with the pampering of criminals all over the country to cover up the unfair and nefarious activities like murder, attack, money laundering, human trafficking, looting, tender manipulation and grabbing.

He demanded the immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the perpetrators.

The BNP leader conveyed his profound sympathy to the family and relatives of Wahida. ‘I wish Wahida Khanam and her father Omar Ali a speedy recovery.’

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