Staff Reporter :
The BNP on Saturday expressed its anxiety over a rising trend of violence against women across the country.
The party urged the government to take stern measures against the perpetrators to save the female citizens from harassments and cruelty.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi came up with the remark at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the city.
Rizvi Ahmed said the government should take proper steps to prevent every type of extremisms against women.
On behalf of the party, Rizvi strongly condemned these continuous incidents and demanded appropriate and immediate punishment for the criminals.
“It is our moral responsibility to protect the dignity and freedom of our female citizens, which is their constitutional right,” the BNP leader stressed.
“Evil forces might not arise in the path of our modern progress and development, but the interim government has to take strong feat to suppress all forms of anarchy, including the repression of women, and to establish justice in the society.
“The incidents of violence and harassment of women across the country have increased alarmingly. It is a grave concern for all,” the BNP leader said.
He said, the women suffer from insecurity on the roads in their day to day life and they are also being subjected to adverse behaviour on the internet also.
The BNP leader grieved that women from all walks of life, including students and female workers, are being subjected to eve-teasing, molestation and sexual harassment in various places, including on the roads and workplaces.
“Number of women are being raped, tortured and killed every year. The culture of harassment and attacks on women, coupled with the overall impunity that has developed, has become a threat to the stability and harmony of the country,” Rizvi said.
The BNP leader said it is necessary to find out why women’s dignity and security are being damaged now through social degradation and whether there is any conspiracy behind this.
