Govt keen to imprison Dr Yunus out of vengeance: BNP

Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday accused the government of involving in a conspiracy to send Nobel laureate Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus to prison only for realising its vengeance.

“Awami League led government is such a regime which does not know how to show minimum respect to virtuous people. Dr Yunus is the only person in Bangladesh who won a Nobel Prize.

The government is now hatching conspiracy to put him behind the bars,” Mirza Fakhrul said while addressing a discussion at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) on the occasion of unveiling the cover of book on the mass uprising in the 90s against autocratic ruler HM Ershad.

The discussion programme was arranged by pro-BNP student leaders of Ducsu and All Party Students Unity (Apsu) of the 90s.

The book was written by Aman Ullah Aman, a member of the advisory council of the BNP Chairperson and a former VP of Ducsu.

Mirza Fakhrul said a minister recently exposed the government’s intension to imprison Dr Yunus by saying that even the President of America had to go to jail.

The BNP Secretary General said the charges brought against the ex-US president and Dr Yunus are not the same.
“You (the government) are trying to send Dr Yunus to prison because of personal vengeance.

You are trying to send him to jail and victimise him by filing cases, bringing the charges against him because of hostility,” Mirza Fakhrul said.

He blasted Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader for his comment that BNP was trying play an evil game to make a political gain by making Professor D. Yunus an issue.

“It is clear that we never need to depend on Dr Yunus issue.

The BNP is completely relying on the issues of people of this country.

The people of this country are the source of all power and the people will establish their government and change their future,” he said.

“Our party is going to people to encourage them to come forward for bringing a change in the government in our country,” the BNP leader said.

“If you (govt) have enough faith in the people that they will vote you, then why don’t you want to hold the election under a non-partisan neutral government? The reason is that you know it very well if you do that, you won’t even get 10 seats,” he said.

Meanwhile, BNP Secretary General also joined a special prayer programme in the party’s Nayapaltan Central office’s ground floor on Thursday.

The programme was organised to pray for an early recovery of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia from ailment.

It also prayed for a quick recovery of BNP Dhaka South City unit’s Member Secretary Rafiqul Alam Mojnu.

Mirza Fakhrul said in the programme that the government is trying to make the political field empty of leaders by imprisoning thousands of BNP leaders and activists.

He demanded immediate release of all leaders and activists of the party and withdrawal of all false cases.