Govt can’t stop us: Fakhrul
Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that the government would not be able to stop the people from waging tougher agitation to press home their one point demand of holding polls under neutral government.
“The government will not be able to silence the ongoing struggle through punishing us, taking us to jail through wholesale arrest and suing under false cases.
We have taken to the street. We have been struggling to realise our rights through peaceful movement. People have awakened up from Teknaf to Tentulia.
They want the fall of this regime at any cost,” he said while speaking at a protest rally in front of BNP central office at Naya Paltan in the capital.
Meanwhile, Mirza Fakhrul had burst into laughter saying that Obaidul Quader on Thursday said he felt the ‘pressure of conscience.’
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said he didn’t feel the foreign pressure, rather he felt ‘pressure of conscience’ after a meeting with US ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas in Dhaka on Thursday.
Responding to Obaidul Quader’s remarks, BNP secretary general said the government has started counting its days. Panic has spread through their remarks.
“They (government) have a conscience, and they feel pressure of it,” said Fakhrul with laughter. “They have no similarities in words and deeds.”
The protest rally was organised as part of the countrywide programme protesting the punishment of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Dr. Zubaida Rahman.
BNP Standing Committee Members Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan and other senior leaders spoke on the occasion.
Dhaka City North BNP Convener Amanullah Aman presided over the rally.
Protesting the punishment against Tarique Rahman, Mirza Fakhrul said, “This government has clanged to power using police administration and judiciary.
He (Tarique Rahman) has been given punishment in a false case under whose leadership we have been struggling to free the country from an autocrat.”
Mirza Fakhrul said, “BNP doesn’t have any headache what the United States, the United Kingdom or India are saying. We need to know what our people are saying.
Our people have already clearly stated that you (government) have not enough time, you must have to leave power.”
The BNP leader said the government has been making various caricatures to cling to power in an illegal way. “You will not be able to yield anything else through caricatures.
This government’s time is over. You have to think twice before punishing Tarique Rahman that people of Bangladesh will also not spare you.”