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Awami League pathological thief: BNP

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 16 March 2023

Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday labeled the Awami League (AL) as pathological theif.
He accused the ruling party of rigging votes in Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections on Wednesday.
“Awami League does nothing, but steal.
Their (AL’s) only aim is to indulge in theft. We usually call them vote thieves. They rig votes in the national polls and even in union parishad elections. Now they rigged votes in the Supreme Court and Dhaka Bars. In fact, they are pathological thieves,” Mirza Fakhrul said while addressing at a discussion program at the National Press Club. The programme marking the launching of the book titled “Amar Rajnitir Rojnamcha” written by BNP Standing Committee Member Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.
Mirza Fakhrul said, “Awami League make their living by stealing and it is their profession and addiction. They also exhausted the country’s resources through stealing”.
The BNP leader also alleged that the ruling party destroyed the country’s power sector by indulging in widespread plundering.
Regarding the SCBA polls, Fakhrul said there was a uproar in the Supreme Court after false and stamped ballot papers were found there on Tuesday night, the night before the polls.
The two-day voting in SCBA elections started around 10am on Wednesday, but it was suspended immediately when some pro-BNP lawyers staged demonstrations demanding the formation of an election conducting committee led by a neutral person.
The Secretary General said, “They (pro-AL lawyers) assaulted our seven-time elected Supreme Court Bar Secretary (Mahbub Uddin Khokon) and wounded him.”
Mirza Fakhrul also said a case was filed against 1,000 pro-BNP lawyers, including Khokon, over the incident.
“What country do we live in now? Where have we brought this country to? Awami League has taken this country to extreme destruction. They have destroyed all our culture, traditions and democratic values. They have destroyed all our democratic institutions also,” he said.