Branding the Anti-Corruption Commission as an Awami League agent, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said it turns a blind eye to the government’s massive corruption.
“When corruption is eating up the vital of the nation, the ACC hardly finds any graft in government activities,” he told a political workshop at a city hotel.
The BNP leader apparently made the allegation in the wake of the ACC’s claim of recovering Tk 13 crore allegedly laundered by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s younger son Arafat Rahman Koko.
The main opposition BNP arranged the daylong workshop for the party’s district-level leaders aiming to enhance their efficiency and groom up them as future leaders.
Earlier on Thursday, ACC Chairman Ghulam Rahman told reporters that the anti-graft watchdog has brought back around Tk 13 crore laundered by Koko and his associates.
Fakhrul termed the ACC chief’s claim baseless and said the commission is carrying out propaganda against the opposition to mislead people.
“On one hand, they (ACC) are giving clean chits to corrupt ministers Suranjit Sengupta and Abul Hossain and are spreading propaganda against the opposition on the other to confuse people,” the BNP spokesman alleged.
He urged the ACC to refrain from spreading falsehood and propaganda against the Zia family and opposition leaders.
Fakhrul said the prime minister and her cabinet members have failed to submit their wealth information as per their election pledge as they all are involved in corruption.
The BNP leader called upon the government to quit shouldering the responsibility for its unbridled corruption and failure to deliver.
BNP standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Dr Moyeen Khan, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jahangirnagar University Prof Mustahidur Rahman and Dhaka University Prof Dr Mahbub Ullah imparted training at the workshop.
Party training affairs secretary Quazi Asaduzzaman presided over the programme.
Key leaders from 21 ‘political districts of BNP’ took part in the workshop.
Source: The Daily Star
