Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party, BNP, has alleged the Awami League government has made the national treasury empty.
“The government clings to power using state forces, guns, and bullets. They have made the national treasury empty,” BNP Standing Committee Member Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan said on Wednesday while visiting the party leader Rafiqul Alam Mojnu, who was released from jail on Wednesday.
Dr. Moin Khan alleged that the ruling Awami League (AL) has established the oligarchs in the country, denying the mass people’s demand.
The BNP leader said they have created a conducive environment for 220 well-off families to control the country’s almost all sectors, while the number of such families was 22 during the Pakistani regime.
Dr. Moyeen made the comments while visiting BNP Dhaka Metropolitan South Unit’s member secretary, Rafiqul Alam Majnu, at his Shajahanpur residence, who recently walked out of jail after serving about 10 months in prison.
He said it, mentioning a German-based research organisation’s report.
Moin Khan said Bangladesh is one of the countries in the world where the rich-poor wealth gap is high, and becoming a billionaire within a short time is possible in the country, as per the report.
Dr. Moyeen said the BNP is waging a movement against the current regime to restore the rights of people, not to capture state power.
He said BNP wants to reconstruct a state where people will enjoy their rights and will live with honour and dignity without any discrimination for religion or race.
The BNP leader said his party doesn’t believe in using muscle power to establish democracy in the country, rather in peaceful movement.
Terming the January 7 election a farce, Moyeen Khan said the world’s powerful media, like The Economist, Washington Post, assessed this election as one-sided and labelled Bangladesh a country of one-party rule.
The BNP senior leader said after the October 28 crackdown on the BNP rally, the government arrested about 26000 leaders and activists of the party, while in the last 15 years they have filed about 1 lakh false and ghost cases where more than 50 lakh people were accused.
Meanwhile, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the government is not giving incentives on importing dates as iftari items, but they are allotting incentives to Sonali and other banks where the looters are plundering crores of taka.
Rizvi said it during a press briefing in its Nayapaltan central office on Wednesday. He announced the party’ independence day observation committee, led by BNP Vice Chairman Hafiz Uddin Ahmed.
