Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday alleged that ‘package programme only with India’ was the guarantee of Sheikh Hasina’s government for its survival in power by keeping up ‘misrule’.
The party alleged that ruling party activists were on an extortion spree ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the remarks at a news briefing at the party’s central office.
He said the incumbent government was implementing steps one after another to make a permanent settlement with India to gain its support to forcibly cling to power.
Rizvi said people were fed up with extortion by Awami activists everywhere in office, court, shop and trade and commerce.
The government’s raised no voice against killings in border areas and India’s river linking project to divert waters of common rivers, he said, adding that the did so as it had no support at home and abroad except India and Anandabazar Patrika, an Indian daily, after coming to power through ‘voterless’ election in 2014.
Rizvi said the United Nations, international development aid organisations and majority countries of the world repeatedly demanded holding a credible national election in Bangladesh.
He said two days ago British parliament criticised the ‘illegal’ government of Bangladesh and demanded immediate holding of an acceptable election.
He said ‘policymakers’ of India were extending support to Awami League government without considering whether there was democracy in Bangladesh. A subservient government here in power was what they wanted, he alleged.
Source: New Age