UNB :
Describing the Awami League government as a puppet of hegemonic forces, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said this regime must go handing over power to the “people” of the country.
“Abrar killing is not an isolated incident as our more than 500 leaders and activists have been made disappeared, and over a thousand others have been killed. These incidents happened as part of a far-reaching plot of hegemonic forces,” he said.
Speaking at a discussion programme, he said the current government has been ‘serving’ the hegemonic forces as it has become their ‘puppet’.
“Awami League wants to turn Bangladesh into a subservient state by establishing a one-party Baksal rule under cover of democracy.
We’ve to come out of this conspiracy through a united movement. I believe it’s not possible to defeat the people of Bangladesh who always struggled for their rights,” the BNP leader said.
The Association of Engineers, Bangladesh arranged the programme at the Jatiya Press Club, marking the second death anniversary of Abrar Fahad, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).
Abrar, 21, a second-year electrical and electronic engineering student of Buet, was beaten to death in the university’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall reportedly by a group of Chhatra League leaders and activists on October 7, 2019 following his a post on Facebook against Indian ‘aggression’ on Bangladesh.
Fakhrul said the entire nation, not only BNP, has been going through a crisis as the government obliterated democracy and snatched people’s rights.
