Kazi Zafar Ahmed has demanded the release of all Opposition BNP leaders, including the party’s Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
Ahmed met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday, after his recent expulsion from the Jatiya Party for criticising party chief HM Ershad for joining the ‘all-party’ interim cabinet..
Ahmed has been campaigning for a caretaker government to oversee the next polls, in tune with the BNP-led-18-party alliance.
In a statement on Monday, he said, “We have run out of words to protest the heinous way in which Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and (BNP’s Central Executive Committee member) Belal Ahmed were arrested.”
“They were arrested by climbing up the BNP office by a ladder and then smashing the office and beating up its staff in the early hours of Nov 19.”
He likened Rizvi’s arrest to human rights violation. “We want to say that a section of the law-enforcement agency committed crimes against humanity.”
“We demand that they be put on trial and punished.”
Despite his expulsion from the Jatiya Party by its founder and chairman Ershad, he claimed to be the party’s new chief.
“On behalf of the party,” he said, “I am urging all the party leaders and activists to be part of the Opposition’s movement.”
BNP-led 18-party alliance has been demanding the installation of a ‘non-party’ caretaker government to oversee the next polls.
Source: Bd news24
