Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP on Friday asked the government to apologise and resign immediately over the killing of students’ quota reform movement.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with the remark in a statement.
The BNP leader condemned the “attacks by law enforcement and ruling party activists” on students during their prayer and mass procession programme.
“One person was killed in Habiganj. They have launched numerous attacks on the protesters using bullets, sound grenades, tear gas, batons, and arrested a number of people. attack were reported from Uttara in Dhaka, Sylhet, Habiganj, Khulna, Chandpur, and Lakshmipur,” Mirza Fakhrul said in the statement.
He called on the government to apologise, and resign immediately.
“Law enforcement and cadres of Awami League, Chhatra League, and Jubo League carried out heinous armed attacks during today’s prayer and mass procession program,” the BNP leader said.
“In Habiganj, worker Mushtaq Mia was killed, and many innocent people were injured by law enforcement and ruling party’s activists. In Sylhet, indiscriminate firing by law enforcement injured many people. In Uttara, students were injured by bullets fired by police and Awami cadres,” said the statement.
Mirza Fakhrul also criticised the government for shutting down various social media sites, including Facebook and Telegram, for disrupting Friday’s programme.