BNP has declared protest programmes across the country on Wednesday against the killing of four people on Sunday’s violence in Borhanuddin upazila of Bhola following a blasphemous Facebook post from a hacked account.
Party Standing Committee member Dr Khondokar Mosharraf Hossain said, “At the initiative of BNP, protest rallies will be held on October 23 at all thanas and upazilas in the country.”
In the capital, he said, their party’s all thana units
Prophet Muhammad were sent to several persons from a hacked Facebook ID of Biplob Chandra Shuvo, triggering a widespread protest.
Stating that the Bhola incident was ‘mass killing’, Mosharraf condemned and protested the ‘killing and indiscriminate firing by police’ on the common people of the district.
He warned the government that the consequences of ignoring people cannot be good. “Don’t play anymore with the lives and property of people. “Enough is enough. The trial of mass killing in Bhola must be held and people’s demands be accepted.”
The BNP leader criticised the role of police in tackling the protest of people in Bhola. “Such aggressive attitude of the police is brutal and unpardonable. As they’ve no accountability, it’s natural they’ll kill people by indiscriminate firing over a trifling matter…it has com become a regular practice. The lives of people now have lower value than that of animals and birds due to the misrule of the current regime.”
He said law enforcers in other countries handle an untoward incident with patience without firing a shot, but the police in Bangladesh have little patience in dealing with an incident. Mosharraf alleged that the government and its ‘protectors’ have become disparate in fear of losing power. “Had the government fallen if people in Bhola would have been allowed to stage demonstrations?”
He said people in Borhanuddin upazila did not commit any crime by gathering at a spot to register their protest against an unfair act. “They (demonstrators) neither harmed anyone nor indulged in vandalism. There’s nothing new that people turn angry when derogatory remarks are made about any religion.”
The BNP leader also voiced wonder that the local administration is conspiring to tactfully give people’s protest in Bhola a flavour of communalism.
Mosharraf said it seems that the government is trying to justify the killing instead of regretting. “The Prime Minister is threatening the protesters with her natural attitude.”
BNP standing committee members Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku and BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi were, among others, present
