Staff Reporter :
The BNP has strongly blasted the government for implicating the names of BNP leaders in a supplementary charge sheet in the murder case of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria.
Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office on Friday alleged that their party-backed public representatives are being implicated in various cases with a political motive to cripple the party leadership.
The press conference was arranged to inform the decisions of the BNP standing committee members’ meeting held with party Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the chair at her Gulshan office on Thursday night.
The CID on Thursday submitted the supplementary charge-sheet against 32 people, including BNP-affiliated Sylhet Mayor Ariful Haq Chowdhury, Habiganj Mayor GM Gaus, former State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar and party chief Khaleda Zia’s former political secretary Harris Chowdhury.
The BNP leader dubbed the cases as being ‘politically motivated’. He warned that the consequences of such acts will not be good.
Senior Assistant Superintendent Meherunnesa Parul of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge-sheet incorporating the names of 11 more accused in the last supplementary charge-sheet before a local court on Thursday.
The BNP spokesman said that the party’s Standing Committee on Thursday night strongly denounced the inclusion of the names of BNP leaders in the Kibria murder case and expressed concern over the matter. Fakhrul claimed that Jessore municipal Mayor Maruful Islam, Manirampur municipal Mayor Iqbal, Baghapara Upazila Chairman Mishwar Rahman, Keshabpur municipal BNP chief Abdus Samad Biswas and municipal Mayor Mona had also been accused in ‘false cases’. “They (the government) are planning to make the opposition leaderless,” he alleged.
Awami League leader Kibria and four others were killed in a January 27, 2005 grenade attack when coming back from a rally in Habiganj. “We believe the government is filing the cases as part of its efforts to cling to power and suppress the opposition’s democratic movement,” Fakhrul further alleged.
Fakhrul alleged that their apprehension of manipulation any election under Awami League-led administration has proved right with the recent remarks of Prime Minister’s adviser HT Imam about the January-5 polls.
“We’d said earlier that Awami League was trying to hold an election with a political motive to perpetuate its power by using the Election Commission. Our allegation has proved right with HT Imam’s remarks,” he said this as reporters drew his attention to Imam’s comments at the press conference.
Earlier on Wednesday, HT Imam, addressing a BCL programme at Dhaka University, said, “You (BCL men) just pass the written test, we’ll see how much we can help you with the viva voce. Our leader (Sheikh Hasina) has told us to arrange jobs for you by any means.”
He also pointed out the advantage of having party men in the administration, and how the AL benefited from them during the polls. “Days before the January 5 polls, many pro-AL officials were inducted in mobile courts that helped the government resist the BNP-Jamaat’s bid to thwart the election. They (pro-AL officials) stood beside us,” Imam said.
Fakhrul said the BNP standing committee members also deplored the government’s denial of permission for holding their scheduled rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on November 8 and the police attacks on their demonstration programmes at different parts of the country the next day.
The BNP has strongly blasted the government for implicating the names of BNP leaders in a supplementary charge sheet in the murder case of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria.
Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office on Friday alleged that their party-backed public representatives are being implicated in various cases with a political motive to cripple the party leadership.
The press conference was arranged to inform the decisions of the BNP standing committee members’ meeting held with party Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the chair at her Gulshan office on Thursday night.
The CID on Thursday submitted the supplementary charge-sheet against 32 people, including BNP-affiliated Sylhet Mayor Ariful Haq Chowdhury, Habiganj Mayor GM Gaus, former State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar and party chief Khaleda Zia’s former political secretary Harris Chowdhury.
The BNP leader dubbed the cases as being ‘politically motivated’. He warned that the consequences of such acts will not be good.
Senior Assistant Superintendent Meherunnesa Parul of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge-sheet incorporating the names of 11 more accused in the last supplementary charge-sheet before a local court on Thursday.
The BNP spokesman said that the party’s Standing Committee on Thursday night strongly denounced the inclusion of the names of BNP leaders in the Kibria murder case and expressed concern over the matter. Fakhrul claimed that Jessore municipal Mayor Maruful Islam, Manirampur municipal Mayor Iqbal, Baghapara Upazila Chairman Mishwar Rahman, Keshabpur municipal BNP chief Abdus Samad Biswas and municipal Mayor Mona had also been accused in ‘false cases’. “They (the government) are planning to make the opposition leaderless,” he alleged.
Awami League leader Kibria and four others were killed in a January 27, 2005 grenade attack when coming back from a rally in Habiganj. “We believe the government is filing the cases as part of its efforts to cling to power and suppress the opposition’s democratic movement,” Fakhrul further alleged.
Fakhrul alleged that their apprehension of manipulation any election under Awami League-led administration has proved right with the recent remarks of Prime Minister’s adviser HT Imam about the January-5 polls.
“We’d said earlier that Awami League was trying to hold an election with a political motive to perpetuate its power by using the Election Commission. Our allegation has proved right with HT Imam’s remarks,” he said this as reporters drew his attention to Imam’s comments at the press conference.
Earlier on Wednesday, HT Imam, addressing a BCL programme at Dhaka University, said, “You (BCL men) just pass the written test, we’ll see how much we can help you with the viva voce. Our leader (Sheikh Hasina) has told us to arrange jobs for you by any means.”
He also pointed out the advantage of having party men in the administration, and how the AL benefited from them during the polls. “Days before the January 5 polls, many pro-AL officials were inducted in mobile courts that helped the government resist the BNP-Jamaat’s bid to thwart the election. They (pro-AL officials) stood beside us,” Imam said.
Fakhrul said the BNP standing committee members also deplored the government’s denial of permission for holding their scheduled rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on November 8 and the police attacks on their demonstration programmes at different parts of the country the next day.
