Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders address a press conference arranged by the party standing committee on the country’s overall situation at its chairperson’s Gulshan office in Dhaka on Wednesday. — UNB photo
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Wednesday that the country was now on the line of fire amid a crisis along the border with Myanmar and the killing of Bangladesh nationals by Indian border guards.
‘Our BGB members and the people of the country are being killed by constant firing on the border,’ BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy said at a press conference at the party chairperson’s office in Gulshan, referring to the recent killing of a BGB member along the border with India and the killing of two people inside Bangladesh in shell fired from Myanmar.
‘Troops fleeing Rakhine in droves are taking refuge here. Bangladesh is now in the crossfire,’ he said.
He said that the Sheikh Hasina-led government was staying in power by securing support from India,
China, and Russia by providing them with illegal economic and geopolitical benefits.
He said that Bangladesh was now disconnected from the democratic world under this regime.
The BNP leader alleged that the present unelected government has deprived every individual, family, and institution in the country of their rights, freedom, and dignity.
People believe only the BNP can bring democracy and freedom, he said, adding that people are now looking towards the BNP to get relief from the country’s current adversity.
The party called upon all right-thinking people to join BNP’s ongoing peaceful movement to ensure the ‘fall of the government.’
The BNP leader termed the BNP’s decision to boycott the January 7 national elections with 62 parties as right and logical.
He said that the people’s right to vote was not established in the farcical election on January 7. Rather, it was a violent fraud on the nation in the name of elections, aimed at illegally, immorally, and unconstitutionally keeping the fascist Sheikh Hasina government in power.
‘Dummy elections have been staged with dummy candidates, dummy parties, dummy voters, and dummy observers,’ he added.
Referring to the three consecutive ‘farce’ elections in 2014, 2018, and 2024, in a written statement, he said that due to the corruption, misrule, and repression carried out by the anti-people government for the past 15 years, people of every class and profession in society had been subjected to discrimination, injustice, and oppression.
BNP has raised the question of whether there was any other political party in the world that was persecuted like BNP and in which country of the world false political cases had been filed against more than 50 lakh leaders and activists.
BNP standing committee members Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan, and Selima Rahman, vice chairmen Md Shahjahan, Abdul Awal Mintoo, AZM Zahid Hossain, and Nitai Roy Chowdhury, senior joint secretary general Rahul Kabir Rizvi, joint secretary general Mahbub Uddin Khokon, and Harun-or-Rashid were present at the press conference.
New Age
