UNB, Dhaka :
BNP senior leader Tariqul Islam on Sunday called upon the party leaders and activists to get ready putting behind the differences of opinion for waging a strong movement to oust the current government.
“Division within the party must be removed to free the country from extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, and restore democracy. Nationalist forces must get united and take to the streets to unseat this regime,” he said.
Tariqul, a standing committee member, made the call while addressing a discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh.
Ziaur Rahman Foundation arranged the programme on the occasion of unveiling the cover of a book titled ‘Ziaur Rahman, the first President of Bangladesh and Proclaimer of its Independence’.
BNP senior vice chairman and the eldest son of Ziaur Rahman edited the 143-page book.
About the book, Tariqul said Awami League’s real face been unmasked in the book that contained the statements of the sector commanders and
renowned journalists about the country’s independence and the role of Ziaur Rahman.
“Awami League had carried out a false propaganda to bury facts with lies. They even publicised the truth as false using the state machinery and the media. I think this book, edited by Tarique Rahman, will help people know the undistorted history of the Liberation War,” the BNP leader said.
He alleged that the current regime is carrying out false campaigns against Ziaur Rahman to cover their failures. “They (AL) are conducting the propaganda against Ziaur Rahman and his family as they can’t tolerate them and BNP.”
The former minister said there is no alternative to toppling this regime through a united movement to establish people’s basic rights and democracy.
BNP standing committee members Dr RA Goni, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Gano Shasta Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, DU Prof Mahbub Ullah, Prof AFM Yusuf Haider and film director and producer Gazi Mazharul Anwar, among others, spoke at the programme with Dhaka University ex-VC Prof Imajuddin Ahmed in the chair.