BNP rejects ‘dictated’ verdict against Tarique-Zubaida

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition BNP on Wednesday turned down the lower court’s verdict against the party’s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Dr. Zubaida Rahman, saying it was given at the behest of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to spoil the ongoing one-point agitation.

“It is clear that the verdict is a dictated verdict. The people of the country have turned down this dictated verdict and a farce in the name of trial with hatred. This verdict has exposed the vengeance of the head of the government (towards Tarique),” BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said while speaking at a press conference at the party Chairperson’s Gulshan office.
He said, when their current movement spread across the country like wildfire, the verdict was announced as a trick of the government to confuse people and to foil the ongoing movement.

“The government has resorted to vengeance by putting a gun on the shoulder of court to make the ongoing movement leaderless. The ongoing agitation of the BNP can’t be suppressed with such acts. We strongly condemn and protest this verdict,” the BNP Secretary General said.

“We urged the government to withdraw the sentence against them in false cases.”
“There are about 49 lakh cases are pending with the courts, the proceedings of this case completed at lightning speed, manifesting that this verdict has been given as per Sheikh Hasina’s instructions,” the BNP leader said.

“The verdict again is another example of the politicisation of the Judiciary. This dictated judgment is part of a continuous conspiracy to abolish the country’s democracy,” he said.
BNP standing committee members Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan and Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury were present at the press conference.