Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam yesterday declared his party’s all out support for the students demanding safety on roads and punishment to those responsible for tragic death of two students on the Dhaka Airport Road on Sunday.
He demanded also resignation of the Shipping Minister.
“It is a logical movement. We are extending our all out supports to the students’ demand,” Fakhrul said while addressing a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the capital on Thursday.
He also asked the government to step down for its complete failure in all fronts, including restoration of discipline in the transport sector.
“The government is responsible for mismanagement in all the sectors. We are, as such, urging the government to immediately step down,” he said.
The government has destroyed all the institutions and shattered people’s all hopes and aspirations through its misrule and repression, the BNP leader said, calling upon people to build a strong resistance against it to ensure its downfall.
Referring to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent comment that slain president Ziaur Rahman was involved in the August 15, 1975 assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he said the prime minister made the allegation against Ziaur Rahman to shift people’s attention.
“We condemn the Prime Minister for her useless statement against Ziaur Rahman,” Fakhrul said.
Ziaur Rahman was not involved in any assassination, he added.
“Zia’s fate was inevitable (for the murder). I regret that I couldn’t bring him to trial for the (August 15) assassination” as he himself was killed in a 1981 military coup, Hasina told a discussion yesterday to mark the beginning of the month of mourning.
“No one has any complaint against Ziaur Rahman and no witness blamed him. Despite this, the prime minister has blamed him for the August 15, 1975 killings,” Fakhrul said.
The government is trying to shift peoples’ attention from the ongoing student movement and thus the prime minister has now cooked up the story afresh, he alleged.
BNP standing committee members Mirza Abbas, Nazrul Islam Khan, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy were also present at the press conference among others.
