The BNP has said the verdict in a money laundering case against BNP Chairperson Khaled Zia’s son Tarique Rahman is entirely predictable.
At a discussion in the National Press Club on Friday, BNP Standing Committee Member ASM Hannan Shah said, “The nation can assume what the verdict will be.”
A Dhaka court is slated to deliver the verdict on Nov 17 in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission accusing Tarique of siphoning off Tk 204.1 million to Singapore.
The ACC lawyers claimed they had been able to prove the charges against Tarique and expected him to be punished.
But those considering Tarique the future leader of the party have alleged that the case was filed as a ‘political vendetta’.
Hannan alleged that the government had pushed democracy into a spot by repeatedly violating the Constitution.
“We want to say clearly that the government cannot avoid the demand of the 90 percent of the population for a non-party government by violating the Constitution.”
The BNP leader asked the people to resist the government’s ‘attempt to hold a unilateral poll’.
He said many leaders of his party were worried that the government would go ahead in holding a unilateral election.
Hannan asked the leaders to make sure that no election takes place in their areas.
Source: BD news24
