AL turned Bangladesh into a ‘terrorist state’: BNP
Staff Reporter :
Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Tuesday accused the Awami League government of turning Bangladesh into a ‘terrorist state’ by using the state machinery to cling to power.
“The AL has used the state machinery, including the law enforcement agencies, the judiciary, and the administration. That means they have already turned Bangladesh into a terrorist state,” BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said while speaking at a human chain programme in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office.
BNP’s Keraniganj south unit arranged the programme to protest the attack on party Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy during the party’s sit-in programme at Dholaikhal on Saturday.
Mirza Fakhrul also said that Awami League is a terrorist party by birth as
it beat its founder and a national leader like Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani and drove him out of the party.
“They (AL) themselves are terrorists. That is why they turned the country into absolutely a terrorist state. AL is the party that sustains by resorting to terrorism. There’s nothing but terror in their body language,” the BNP leader said.
About arranging lunch for BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy at the office of the Detective Branch (DB) of Police and sending gifts for the party’s another leader Amanullah Aman by the prime minister after their detention, Mirza Fakhrul said that the government did it to divert people’s attention to a different direction from the movement for the restoration of democracy, voting rights and human rights.
“All of these are a drama. The Awami League has become so much bankrupt politically that they have to do these things now and spread videos.
Does Awami League know etiquette? They don’t know it.
Awami League was never a party of gentlemen. So, there is no reason to expect politeness from them,” the BNP leader said.
Mirza Fakhrul said, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and Aman Ullah Aman need not prove their patriotism afresh. They proved their patriotism with their lifelong politics and struggle for democracy.
The BNP leader said that the government had got scared seeing the gathering of lakhs of people at BNP’s grand rally on July 28 at Nayapaltan in the capital.
“It was Awami League, not BNP, indulging in arson violence. BNP will establish democracy through a justified and peaceful movement,” Mirza Fakhrul said.
The BNP Secretary General called upon the government to step down and dissolve parliament to hold the election under a non-party caretaker government. This is the only way to overcome the crisis, he added.
He called the party leaders and activists to be determined in strengthening the ongoing movement until meeting the demand for resignation of the AL government and to form a polls-time neutral government.
