Govt establishing BAKSAL in different formats: BNP

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party, BNP, Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, said on Saturday that the government has formed one party, BAKSAL, again in a different format.

“This Awami League government has destroyed everything, including the judiciary and economics, and established one-party BAKSAL rule again,” Mirza Fakhrul said while addressing an Iftar mahfil in Ladis Club in Escaton in the capital, honouring family members of the victims of forcibly disappearances, oppressions, and killing during this government.

BNP leaders have handed over financial help to 64 victim families in the programme.

Meanwhile, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Saturday that due to the ruling Awami League government’s ‘knee-jerk foreign policy’ Bangladesh is being turned into a ‘battle corridor’ of neighbouring countries.

“Keeping the borders unprotected, the government has deployed hundreds of thousands of members of law enforcement agencies in the capital to suppress opposition movements,” he said at a press conference held at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office.

“Why do our borders remain unprotected? Because the dummy government doesn’t explain to people anything about it,” the BNP leader said.

The law enforcement agencies were kept engaged to secure one person’s throne, Rizvi said.

“Bank robbery, abduction, attack on law enforcement agencies, and looting of their arms by the so-called Kuki-Chin National Front in Bandarban is a clear sign of the failure of Sheikh Hasina’s dummy government,” he said

Not only the Bangladesh-Malaysian border is unprotected, but also the Bangladesh-India border is witnessing bloodshed with the killing of the country’s innocent people on a regular basis, he said.

“The incumbent ‘evil power’ had celebrated Independence Day but did not utter a single word about the killings of Al Amin and Liton,” he said.

Meanwhile, police had obstructed a BNP procession in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office after the party men brought it out, demanding the immediate release of the party’s jailed leader, Habib un Nabi Khan Sohel.

Rizvi led the procession towards Kakrail but ended in the face of police obstacles.

Rizvi condemned the police action, saying the government illegally detained Sohel, and now police foiled their procession demanding his release.

Rizvi called on the government to release Sohel immediately.