BNP condemns govt for damaging people’s democratic and fundamental rights

Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that the democratic and fundamental rights of the people are being severely damaged by the oppression of the Awami League government.
“Due to the absence of the rule of law, there is no security for anyone’s life inside or outside their homes. Even innocent people who are not involved in any crime are being made accused. They are being arrested and subjected to inhumane torture while in remand,” he said.
BNP Secretary General on Friday made these remarks in a statement sent to the media by the party’s incumbent office secretary, Syed Emran Saleh Prince.
“Currently, the prices of daily necessities such as rice, lentils, salt, sugar, oil, fish-meat, chicken, eggs, and even green chilies are increasing.
This has created an environment of suffocation among the people’s lives,” he said in the statement.
“Even people are fighting to buy TCB products. People who are unable to afford rice are pickig up the rice under trucks to alleviate their hunger,” Fakhrul said.
Failing to control the price of goods, this government has been continuously carrying out repressive measures to control and suppress the opposition parties and their movement for restoring democracy, he criticised.
Slamming the false cases against the party leaders and workers, he said, “Pirojpur BNP Organising Secretary Alamgir Hossain, Joint Organising Secretary Sheikh Riaz Uddin Rana, member Nazrul Islam Khan, Sadar Upazila BNP Chairman Mohiudding Mollik Nasir and, along with other leaders and activists were shamelessly sent to jail in a false cases.”
“It should be remembered that no autocratic ruler in the past were able to suppress the movement by kidnapping, killing, arresting and torturing the opposition leaders and workers. The current government cannot suppress the democratic movement either,” the BNP General Secretary said.
He said that BNP and its affiliate organizations’ activists along with the people would continue to fight against the government in the struggle against oppression and torture. They will ensure the protection of people’s lives and livelihoods, and ensure good governance by restoring the stolen democracy and voting rights.
In the statement, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir strongly condemns and protests against the arrest and imprisonment of leaders from the Pirjojpur district and Upazila, and demands their unconditional release, including withdrawal of false allegations.
Meanwhile, in a rally organised by Bangladesh Sammilito Peshajibi Parishad in front of Jatiya Press Club on Friday, BNP Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan said, “History says – democracy has repeatedly returned to the country under the leadership of BNP. It will return again.”
Responding to the accusation of ‘BNP is stepping ahead one foot and moving backward two feet’, he said, “It is a strategy. We are moving forward. A vast number of people in the country are joining our movement and struggle. Huge processions are being held in every village and union. We are involving the common people.”
“We want a change in the country’s state power through democratic process. BNP does not believe in any conspiracy,” he continued. About the ongoing movement, he said, “BNP activists are reaching out to the people and revitalising them. They are struggling to be triumphant.”