UNB, Dhaka :BNP on Thursday termed ‘heinous and inhuman’ the police attacks on the workers of Tuba Group who were on a movement demanding their dues and festival bonus.In a statement, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also compared the police attack on the hapless RMG workers with medieval age darkness and barbarism.”The country is now under a barbaric rule… the police attacks on the workers have proved that the country is run by the offenders not by the law,” he said.He strongly condemned and protested the attackson the agitating workers with their justified demands. Fakhrul alleged that the current regime that talks about the spirit of the Liberation War has established autocracy after grabbing power through a farcical election on January 5. “The country is now run by one person’s whim.”He said, the country’s people strongly believe that the problem relating to the Tuba Group workers’ dues and bonus can be solved soon if the BGMEA takes proper steps.The BNP spokesman demanded the government and other authorities concerned take necessary measures so that the demonstrating Tuba Group workers get their dues and bonus properly.Earlier in the day, police stormed into a factory of Tuba Group in Badda area and fired rubber bullets and teargas canisters to disperse the workers as they were observing an indefinite hunger strike demanding that their three months’ salaries and bonus be paid together.Over a dozen workers and journalists, including photographers of The Daily Star and Prothom Alo, were injured during the incident. Policemen also charged batons on the agitating workers.
