The BNP on Sunday said the government was trying to deceive people in the name of trying the suspected war criminals in an attempt to ‘confuse’ people.
BNP’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said all efforts were being directed to ‘divert’ the people’s attention from the failures of the government.
Responding to LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam’s statement that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was scaring people with something that actually does not exist, Fakhrul said it was the government, not the Opposition Leader, which was making such efforts.
“It is you (Awami League) who are trying to accomplish such things using the name of something that does not exist,” BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul said, pointing at the war crimes trials.
“You will neither be able to divert the people’s attention nor confuse them,” he told a rally in Dhaka.
Ashraf on Saturday termed irresponsible BNP chief Khaleda’s comments that the United Nations might stop hiring forces from Bangladesh as peacekeepers if the law keepers did not stop killing people. “Scaring people with something that does not exist will not be effective,” Asharaf had said.
Fakhrul said the government must accede to the opposition’s demand to hold the national elections under a non-partisan body.
“You cannot avoid it.”
The BNP leader alleged more than 200,000 activists of his party had been implicated in false cases until Saturday while thousands more were being detained.
He urged everyone to observe the upcoming 48-hour shutdown, demanding release of over 150 opposition activists. The leader said their shutdown on Monday and Tuesday would remain peaceful.
Fakhrul termed the government ‘anti-democratic’ and accused police of killing 140 people.
Source: Priyo
