Describing the remand order against its five leaders as the manifestation of the government’s vindictive and dirty politics, opposition BNP on Thursday demanded their unconditional release.
“Influencing the court, the government has sent our senior five leaders to jail. This remand has exposed the government’s vindictive and dirty political game against the opposition,” said BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
He came up with the allegation at a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office.
Earlier in the day, a CMM court here allowed eight days’ remand for each of the five arrested senior BNP leaders — Barrister Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah, BNP chairperson’s adviser and former FBCCI president Abdul Awal Mintoo and her special assistant Shimul Biswas — rejecting their bail prayers in two cases of vandalism, arson and attack on police.
On the night of November 8, plainclothes police arrested the BNP leaders from the city. They were shown arrested in the two cases filed with Motijheel Police Station on November 5 and September 24 for vandalism, arson and attacking policemen.
Demanding withdrawal of the remand order, Rizvi warned the government that people will give a befitting reply to its ugly repressive acts to subdue the opposition.
Source: UNB Connect
