Govt brands innocent people as militants for political gains: BNP
Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday accused the government of branding innocent people as militants to get attentions from western countries and India.
“The government is picking up innocent people and branding them as militants to get the attention of the Western countries and the neighbouring India,” the BNP Secretary General said while speaking at a discussion meeting in the capital.
“You have seen a few days ago that some ordinary and innocent people were picked up from a locality, which they mentioned as a deep jungle and labeled them as militants,” Mirza Fakhrul said.
“The government is trying to show that there are militancy and fanaticism in Bangladesh and only they (Awami League govt) are needed to restrain the militants. This is their main intention, this is what they want to show to the other countries,” he said.
“In fact, the current regime and Awami League are militants as they are killing and destroying the common people and snatching all their rights by imposing the tag of terrorism and militancy on them.”
“It is sure that the people of this country are religious minded… it is neither a sin nor a crime.
The government is trying to make political gains by branding people who practice religion as militants,” the BNP leader said.
Jatiya Party (Zafar) arranged the discussion at the Institution of the Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh, marking the 8th death anniversary of its founder Kazi Zafar Ahmed.
BNP Secretary General said the current government has strongly established the rule of a one-person and one-party by snatching all rights of the people.
“The existence of our nation now depends on whether we can remove the fascism.
It is encouraging that people are protesting and waking up against the current fascist regime and 22 people have sacrificed their lives on the streets over the past year,” he said.
“The democratic forces must suppress the fascists to establish democracy and a democratic state system,” he said.
Apart from these, Mirza Fakhrul alleged that the government picked up six Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders from a house and showed them arrested with three arms after 48 hours.
“Those weapons appear to have been hidden under the earth 20/25 years and brought from there that day.
This propaganda is an attempt to befool the people.
They think people of all countries are fools, but everyone understands that they (govt) want to stay in power by resorting to trickery like this,” Mirza Fakhrul said.
The BNP leader also slammed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her Monday’s remarks against BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman and the Zia family.
“The prime minister who seized power called Ziaur Rahman’s family a killer.
I strongly condemn and protest it.”
He said most opposition political parties are now decided not to join any election under the current Awami League government.
“The Prime Minister must quit and hand over power to a non-party neutral government by dissolving parliament to pave the way for holding a credible general election,” he said.
