Combing operation meant to contain opposition: Fakhrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said he was afraid if the government in the name of conducting combing operation would ‘swoop in’ on the opposition.
He expressed his feeling while talking to journalists at National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, better known as Pongu Hospital, in the city.
Fakhrul was visiting
an injured chairman– Azizur Rahman– of Verendabari union parishad under Gaibandha district.
Aziz, the newly elected chairman, was seriously wounded as terrorists opened gunshots on June 2 in Gaibandha.
Fakhrul said events of crossfire or so called ‘gunfight’ have been intensified in the name of combining operation. Already nine people are killed in the gunfights, he added.
Police and other law enforcing agencies started a countrywide 7-day intensive operation since Friday night to curb militancy in the country.
The BNP secretary general said the combing operation is the government’s strategy to suppress the ‘people’s movement’.
‘We fear that on the pretext of combing drive, they would again swoop in on the opposition,’ he said.
Fakhrul said now there is no rule of law; no security of life particularly following the trail of unprecedented violence committed centring the just concluded staggering union parishad polls.
He held incumbent Election Commission’s ‘ineptitude’ and ‘partisan loyalty’ responsible for such widespread violence.
He said the election system has been destroyed because of the EC’s subservience to the government.
The BNP leader said the government created anarchy across the country to its own advantage to stay in power, without caring the citizens’ rights.
He said there is no alternative to holding of a fair general election immediately under a neutral government, to overcome this situation.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net