Staff Reporter :The BNP has alleged that the government has now started ‘interfering’ in trade and business of the opposition leaders out of political vengeance. BNP’s senior leader Mirza Abbas’ removal from Dhaka Bank as director is the latest example of the political vengeance, the party said. Addressing a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the city on Tuesday, BNP’s spokesman Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon said, “The government has resorted to vengeance to make its narrow political gains. It is now not only limited to political arena. It is now interfering in the trade and business institutions of opposition leaders and activists.”He said that everybody knows Mirza Abbas is a founding member of Dhaka Bank. But the Bangladesh Bank rejected the Dhaka Bank’s proposal to reappoint him as its director. “It is political vengeance. We strongly condemn such move,” Dr Ripon said. Earlier on Sunday, Bangladesh Bank turned down the Dhaka Bank’s proposal for reappointing BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, as he has been charged with several criminal cases and he is now a fugitive in the violence cases.Dr Ripon claiming the central bank’s view as false demanded immediate withdrawal of the decision. Mirza Abbas is no more fugitive in any case. ‘Our party considers the central bank decision as a politically motivated one. We hope that the government will refrain from the path of political vengeance in the interest of democratic practice,’ he said. The BNP leader also urged the central bank to revoke its decision. He said the Bangladesh Bank had failed to maintain and restore discipline in the entire financial management. “The state-owned banks have been ruined due to unabated plundering and corruption, but the central bank couldn’t do anything to check it,” he said. Dr Ripon alleged that the ruling party men are getting reappointment in the Board of Directors of state-owned banks even after indulging in corruption.
