AL retains power depending on foreigners: BNP
Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP on Sunday claimed that the ruling Awami League (AL) has survived in power depending on foreign countries.
The party also accused the AL government of playing a role through widespread corruption for commodity price hiking in Bangladesh.
“The BNP is not dependent on the foreigners, but it is the AL government which has survived by depending on foreign countries,” BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the capital.
The BNP leader also said that the government’s corruption is the reason for the hike in the prices of commodities in the country.
“The AL government has said that the wars in Gaza and in Ukraine are behind the commodity price hiking in Bangladesh.
But it is clear to all that commodity prices in other countries have not increased because of those wars or any other conflict.
Prices have increased in our country because of the widespread plundering and corruption of this authoritarian regime,” Rizvi said. He said ruling party men have looted all the banks.
“The syndicate of ministers and AL related traders behind the prices of all products are now skyrocketing.
AL people are siphoning money out of the country,” he said. Rizvi said, “People are forced to sell their children because of hunger.
But just because the people in power are living in bliss doesn’t stop them from making fun of the hungry people.
The economy is suffering repeated shocks due to government corruption and money laundering.”
BNP Organising Secretary Advocate Abdus Salam Azad, Youth Affairs Co-Secretary Mir Newaz Ali Newaz, Executive Committee Members Z Mortuza Chowdhury Tula, Aminul Islam and Tariqul Alam Tenzing and others were present at the press conference.
In response to AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader’s remarks that the BNP is hatching a new conspiracy after the election, Rizvi said, “By forming a dummy government through dummy elections, the AL government is now in fear of losing power. But the BNP never rely on foreigners.”
“The voters did not go to the polling stations in the one-sided fake election on 7 January.
Thousands of images of fake votes and irregularities have gone viral through media and social media,” Rizvi said.
The BNP leader also said the ruling Awami League (AL) has committed election crime.
He said that the defeated candidates with AL affiliation have also termed this election as a farce and mockery.
“This questionable election has not been accepted anywhere in the country and abroad,” he said.
Rizvi further said, “The government will fall through the people’s movement and elections have to be held under a neutral caretaker government. A caretaker government has no choice but to hold free and fair elections.
The main goal of our ongoing movement is to establish a true and dynamic democracy with the participation of the people.”
