UNB, Dhaka :Terming the government ‘shameless and autocrat’, BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday urged the party men to get united and ready for making sacrifice to oust the regime through a intensified movement.”This is a shameless, illegal, unethical, incompetent and autocratic government. We all must get united and ready for making sacrifice to overthrow the regime through intensifying our movement,” he said.Fakhrul, also the BNP acting secretary general, made the remarks while addressing a discussion at the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh organised by BNP, marking the 7th ‘Jail Release Day’ of its senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman.Tarique, the eldest son of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman and its chairperson Khaleda Zia, was arrested on March 7, 2007 during the then army-backed interim regime and freed from jail on bail on September 3, 2008. He left for London for treatment eight days later and has been staying there since then. Fakhrul said their senior vice chairman Tarique was not freed but deported.He said Tarique’s homecoming is not safe as long as this ‘monstrous’ government is there in office. “Tarique Rahman is our future leader. We have to keep him alive. We must oust this regime first, if we want to ensure his safe homecoming.”The BNP leader alleged that some Awami League leaders and intellectuals like to make indecent comments and hurl abusive words against Tarique Rahman. ‘But when he (Tarique) hits back with facts they feel the pinch as they can’t refute those.”He regretted that a 65-year-old political party like Awami has grabbed power and it is still holding office illegally by stanching people’s rights and annihilating democracy.Coming down hard on the ruling party leaders for their comments that there will be no compromise with BNP in the next 100 years, the BNP leader said all autocratic rulers think like that. “Namrud, Feraun and Hitler also made such arrogant remarks, but they could not resist their ultimate fall.”The people of Bangladesh never in the past accepted autocracy, he said adding they will also not allow this regime to hang onto power forever.”We know how to bend the finger if ghee doesn’t come out with the straight one. We have now no other option but to carry out the movement and intensify it to force the regime to hold a fresh election immediately,” he added.About the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and others, Fakhrul said the ‘false and baseless’ cases were filed to keep the BNP chairperson away from politics.He claimed no signature of Khaleda Zia found in the documents submitted by the Anti Corruption Commission in connection with the two cases. “These two trusts are non-government institutions. There was no fund of the government in those. The cases were filed only to belittle our leader.”The BNP spokesman strongly condemned and protested the police action against the BNP leaders who Bakshibazar area on the occasion of Khaleda’s arrival to present before a makeshift court set up at Dhaka Alia Madrasah.Referring to former Awami League Minister AK Khandaker’s book ‘Bhetore Baire’, he said the writer clearly explained that Bangabandhu tried to reach a negotiation with the Pakistani leaders until March 25, 1971 instead of trying to liberate the country.Quoting from the book, Fakhrul said Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic March 7 address was not the proclamation of the independence as the last world of the speech was ‘Joy Pakistan’.He suggested BNP men to read the book carefully to know the true history of the Liberation War.Chaired by Fakhrul, the programme was addressed, among others, by BNP standing committee member Rafiqul Islam Miah, vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman, Selima Rahman, joint secretaries general Amanullah Aman and Barkatullah Bulu.
