Govt realises its time is running out fast: BNP
Staff Reporter :
BNP leaders on Thursday claimed that the government is trying utmost to cling in power by seeking support from different foreign countries.
The opposition party leaders said that such efforts of the government would not be fruitful and the regime must be ousted from power soon.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in a statement that the ‘authoritarian’ government has understood that its time is running out fast.
He criticised the attacks, cases, and arrest of opposition leaders and activists in the country in his statement.
“They (government) have become desperate to give a death bite on the leaders and workers of the opposition parties including BNP,” he said.
BNP Secretary General issued the statement expressing his anxiety over sending the party central leader Azizul Bari Helal and Khulna district
unit convener Amir Ejaz and 11 others leaders and activists to jail in Khulna cancelling bail plea.
He also sent another statement protesting the arrest of Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila BNP General Secretary Abdul Awal and Upazila JCD President Masum Billah.
“The arrested leaders were the victims of political vengeance of Sheikh Hasina-led government. However, protest will get accelerated if the voterless Awami League government’s torture and repression rise against people,” he said.
Mirza Fakhrul demanded immediate withdrawal of the cases filed against the arrested party men and release them unconditionally.
Meanwhile, BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas said that the government must go and will be ousted soon.
“Seeking support abroad would not be effectual. The government must has to go. The people will oust them from power soon,” Mirza Abbas said it during a preparation programme of Mayday event at Bhasani Auditorium in Nayapaltan in the capital.
Besides, BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury accused of the government is trying to seek support from foreigners by touring those countries.
“The government is seeking support from the foreigners by visiting different countries now to stay in power for another term. But the people of the country would not let them to do so,” Amir Khosru Mahmud said at a programme in the National Press Club on Thursday.
The programme was organised on the occassion of the death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Haque.
Sramik Dal’s rally in Dhaka on May 1: Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal will hold a rally in Dhaka on May 1 to mark the historic May Day.
BNP Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan announced the programme at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan office on Thursday.
Nazrul Islam Khan said the workers from Dhaka and its adjoining industrial areas will participate in the programme.
Apart from capital Dhaka, Sramik Dal, the labour wing of BNP, will also arrange rallies in other cities and district towns across the country on the May Day.
