The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday described the ruling Awami League and its chief Sheikh Hasina as the biggest Indian products, urging people to boycott the party and its leader.
‘The country’s people will be freed only by boycotting the Indian product AL,’ he said while addressing a discussion meeting on BNP’s founder, Ziaur Rahman, held at the National Press Club in Dhaka.
The BNP leader recalled a recent comment made by AL general secretary Obaidul Quader, who said that the people of democratic countries all over the world had conspired against them, but they were able to hold the January 7 elections because India stood by them.
‘Today everyone is talking about the Indian product boycott. The biggest product of India is AL, Sheikh Hasina [prime minister].’
‘Boycotting the only product [the AL government] will make the nation free, and there is no need to boycott all Indian products.’
Mentioning that the people of Bangladesh are spending a huge amount of money on travel to India, he said, ‘If the people of Bangladesh say that they will not go to India from tomorrow, where will India’s economy stand?’
Gayeshwar said that Indian intelligence agencies and think tanks have calculated what will happen to the country after the next hundred years, and they act accordingly. They do not boast within the country.
The intelligence agencies of our country go after only the opposition, but they cannot work for the country, he said.
Meanwhile, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleged on Friday that the ‘criminal forces’ unleashed by AL lawmakers had created a terrible, anarchic situation in the country.
Rizvi came up with the allegations while visiting Natore district BNP joint convener Farhad Ali Dewan, who is undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Super Specialised Hospital in the capital.
Farhad was beaten and shot in Natore on March 13.
Rizvi accused the supporters of the lawmaker in the Natore-2 constituency and the local Awami League leaders and workers of being involved in the attack on the BNP leader.
Rizvi alleged that after the dummy elections, the government was running the country relying on ‘criminals’ as there were no people with them.
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