A senior BNP leader on Friday claimed the recent ‘mass resistance’ in several parts of the country eventually scared Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League-led incumbent government.
BNP Standing Committee member MK Anwar made the remark, apparently in response to a comment by Hasina over an attack on Awami League’s anti-shutdown procession in Chittagong’s Fatikchharhi recently, at a human chain programme.
The supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami and Hifazat-e Islam reportedly swooped on the procession and killed at least three people, apart from injuring 150 others and torching over 200 vehicles on Apr 11.
“The government doesn’t have ground under its feet. People are offering resistance at several places to their illegal activities,” he said.
He claimed the Prime Minister’s Friday’s speech that urged her party leaders and activists to become vocal to stop recurrence of incidents like the one at Fatikchharhi proved she was scared too.
He said acceding to their demand for reinstating the caretaker government provision was the only solution to the current political impasse.
The programme was organised in front of the National Press Club to press for the release of its senior leaders, including Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
He also lashed out at the recent ‘police torture’ on the opposition leaders and activists across the country.
On the Padma bridge issue, he said, “The Prime Minister had refuted the charges of corruption in the project … Now that the World Bank has banned Canadian SNC-Lavalin for 10 years over corruption, what will they say,” he asked.
The global lender banned the Canadian firm on Thursday for its ‘misconduct’ with regard to the Padma bridge project of Banlgadesh.
Source: bdnews24
