Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir along with Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal leaders places a wreath at Ziaur Rahman’s graveside in Dhaka on Thursday.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said that the party’s street agitation against the coal-fired Rampal power plant project would depend on the government response to its demand for cancellation of the project.
‘It depends on the government’s behaviour whether we would take to the street…We have made a demand and we have to wait for the government response to it,’ he replied when asked about announcing no programme against Rampal power plant at BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s news conference on Wednesday.
At the news conference Khaleda asked the government to scrap all coal-fired power plant projects at Rampal in Bagerhat near the Sunderbans terming the move ‘anti-people’, ‘anti-state’, ‘imprudent’, ‘illogical’ and ‘non-profitable’ saying that the projects would definitely destroy the largest mangrove forest of the world.
Fakhrul was talking to reporters on Thursday at the graveside of late president Ziaur Rahman, also the BNP founder, after placing wreath and offering fateha at Zia’s graveside along with leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal to mark its 38th founding anniversary.
Asked about that left political parties’ street agitations against Rampal power plant, he said that BNP had supports to their programmes.
Replying to a question about a ruling Awami League leader’s comment that BNP resorted to Rampal issue to survive, he said that AL wanted to divert the key issue creating new issues.
He said the country has many more places to set up powers plants and many alternative ways for generating power but there was no alternative to the Sunderbans.
Source: New Age
